Levittown triple murder suspect won't leave jail cell for hearing. What happens now?
Officials are anticipating a “substantial delay” to the preliminary hearing for triple murder suspect Andre Gordon, scheduled for Wednesday morning.Gordon, 26, is reportedly not communicating with jail staff and attorneys and refusing to leave his jail cell to be transported to the Bucks County Justice Center, where the hearing will be held. Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said she expects to hold a hearing in absentia if Gordon continues to refuse to appear.
Three witnesses are expected to testify including Nancy Daniel, the mother of Taylor Daniel, Gordon’s 25-year-old ex-girlfriend and one of his three victims.Also expected to testify is the second carjack victim, Schorn said.The hearing is expected to start by 11:30 a.m.Gordon is facing three first-degree murder charges and a long list of related offenses connected to his March 16 violent and fatal crime spree that canceled the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, and left most of Falls, and some other parts of Lower Bucks, in lockdown for hours as police tracked him down.The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office intends to seek the death penalty.Authorities have not released a motive for the killings. Little is known about Gordon, who was reportedly homeless. He was born in Jamaica and his father brought him to the U.S. when he was a teenager. He graduated from Pennsbury High School in 2016, where he met Daniel, who is the mother of his two children. He and Daniel had an on and off relationship that ended in March 2023.
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Gordon also faces charges in Mercer County, New Jersey where his alleged crime spree started, and ended nine hours later near the Trenton home of a family member where he had barricaded himself.
Authorities allege that after carjacking a woman in New Jersey, Gordon drove to his family’s Vermillion Hills home. After a confrontation with his father, Andre Gordon Sr. he allegedly broke the front door window and fired a semi-automatic rifle into the home, killing his stepmother, Karen, 52, and his sister, Kera, 13.After the first shooting, authorities allege Gordon drove less than three miles to the Edgewood Lane home where Daniel and his children lived.After breaking down a door, Gordon allegedly entered the home and shot Daniel in front of the couple’s children, who are 3- and 5-years-old, and on a bed two feet away, authorities said. The children were not injured.
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Daniel’s mother, Nancy Daniel, attacked Gordon using a wood ax handle, but she suffered a facial injury after Gordon hit her with his weapon, police said.After leaving Daniel’s home, Gordon drove toward Trenton, New Jersey, ditching the stolen car in Morrisville then allegedly carjacking at gunpoint another person in the parking lot of the Dollar General on Bristol Pike. The second stolen car was found abandoned in Trenton near a home on Phillips Avenue where Gordon holed up. He was arrested hours later, after cutting his braids, when a family friend recognized him walking a few blocks from the Phillips Avenue home, police said.
This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Levittown triple murder suspect Andre Gordon due in court for killings
