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A man arrested after killing three people in Pennsylvania

An armed man has killed three people in two homes in the American community of Falls, in the east of the state of Pennsylvania, before fleeing in a vehicle with several weapons inside, as confirmed this Saturday by police sources. the local network FOX 29 News. The suspect barricaded himself in a house and was finally arrested.

The municipal police published an alert on social networks about the presence of an “active shooter” and urged citizens to stay in their homes after confirming “several victims of gunshots.”

Shortly after, security forces published information on the main suspect, whom they identified as Andre Gordon, 26 years old, and who they held responsible for the deaths of three people in two separate incidents between 8:52 and 9:01 a.m. local time.

“We do not know for now whether the victims have been chosen deliberately or at random,” the local Middletown Police said in its statement, published on its Facebook web page.

Gordon was arrested around 5:00 p.m. near the house in the town of Trenton where it was believed that he had barricaded himself, explained the town’s police chief, Steve Wilson, quoted by the NJ news portal. com. No one was injured during the arrest.

It was later learned that the deceased were his 52-year-old stepmother, Karen Gordon; a 13-year-old sister, Kera Gordon, and the mother of her two children, Taylor Daniel, 25, authorities have confirmed.

It apparently all started when Gordon stole a vehicle on Saturday morning in North Trenton, New Jersey, and crossed into Falls, Pennsylvania, according to Wilson.

He shot his stepmother and his sister before 9:00 a.m. and other people in the house managed to hide even though he was looking for them. He then left and went to the house on Edgewood Lane where he killed the mother of his children. He also injured the deceased woman’s mother.

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