The man who admitted to murdering three of his family members was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. NBC10’s Deanna Durante has the details.
A Buck County judge has sentenced a New Jersey man — who admitted to killing three family members in a violent interstate rampage — to three consecutive life sentences behind bars.
On Wednesday, Bucks County Judge Raymond McHugh sentenced Andre Gordon Jr. to three consecutive life sentences in order to ensure there is no possibility that he would ever be released from prison. Gordon admitted to killing his stepmother, teen sister and the mother of his children in a violent rampage last year.
Officials said that Gordon agreed to enter the guilty plea during a pre-trial conference on Wednesday.
He was sentenced on murder charges and the 30 other crimes that he committed during his killing spree.
The 27-year-old Gordon was arrested after he was found walking through the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, while trying to blend in with the crowd shortly after he shot and killed his 52-year-old stepmother, Karen Gordon, as well as his 13-year-old sister, Kera Gordon, inside a home in Levittown before he broke into another home about two miles away on Edgewood Lane in Levittown, where he killed the mother of his two children, 25-year-old Taylor Daniel.
In court on Wednesday, 9-1-1 calls were played for the courtroom, letting friends and family hear the voices of the murdered women calling for help — and the silence that fell in the recording after they were killed.
In the calls, the court heard Karen Gordon holding her 13-year-old daughter as they huddled behind a locked door and begged for help.
A second recording allowed those at the hearing to hear Daniel as she urged her family to hide.
“There are no words to explain this,” McHugh told Gordon at his sentencing hearing.
In talking to NBC10’s Deanna Durante, Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said that prosecutors still don’t know the exact reason why Gordon went on a violent rampage day.
“His family was good to him. He was loved,” she said.
Gordon’s rampage began at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, 2024. He stole a vehicle in Trenton, New Jersey, before driving it to a home where his father and stepmother lived on Viewpoint Lane in Levittown.
Here, after an altercation with his father, Gordon forced his way into the home and fired the shots that killed his stepmother and sister.
He then drove to Daniel’s Levittown home, where he forced his way inside and shot her to death.
Gordon and Daniel’s two children were also inside the home as well as Daniel’s mother and a fourth family member, at the time, officials said.
Police said Gordon bludgeoned Daniel’s mother with his weapon during this incident.
Gordon then carjacked another person at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Dollar General store on the 1200 block of Bristol Pike in Morrisville, before he drove back to Trenton, NJ, where he attempted to hide from police.
Officials believe Gordon was armed with an AR-15 style weapon during the murders and carjacking incidents.
Gordon was also facing charged after attacking guards while he was in custody.
