Suspect Arrested In New Jersey After Killing 3 People In Philadelphia Suburb, Police Say

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A man suspected of killing three people in the Philadelphia area was arrested in New Jersey on Saturday after an hourslong standoff, police said.

Steve Wilson, police director for the city of Trenton, said the man was found near a house were he was believed to have barricaded himself and was taken into custody.

No one else was injured.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A gunman killed three people in their Philadelphia-area homes and then barricaded himself in a house in New Jersey’s capital city Saturday, authorities said, in a string of violence that spread fear among the suburbs and prompted a major police response spanning two states.

The mayhem forced the cancellation of a St. Patrick’s Day parade and shut down a Sesame Street-themed amusement park. Authorities in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County issued a shelter-in-place order for some areas for several hours.

The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Andre Gordon Jr., killed his stepmother, his teenage sister and the mother of his children in shootings that stretched into two homes in eastern Pennsylvania’s Falls Township in the morning, Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said.

Officials said they couldn’t yet speak to a motive for the attacks. While Gordon had had some minor brushes with the law, they were “nothing that would indicate that anything like this would happen,” Falls Township Police Chief Nelson Whitney said at a news conference.

Police said Gordon was believed to be homeless. It was unclear whether he had an attorney or anyone else who could comment on his behalf.

After fleeing in a stolen car, then taking another in a carjacking in a store parking lot, Gordon holed up in