Three family members were killed by a homeless guy on a crime spree that spanned two states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He said he could only “pray to God” after his first court date on Wednesday, but the Pennsylvania district attorney who is prosecuting the case said she would seek the death sentence for the homeless man who is accused of killing three family members last month.
It has been reported that Andre Gordon Jr. is guilty of murder in the shooting deaths of his stepmother, teenage sister, and children’s mother on March 16. Two states were affected by the killing spree.
“I am putting this defendant on notice,” said District Attorney Jennifer Schorn in court on Wednesday, according to the Bucks County Courier.
“Multiple killings and grave risk to others” led Schorn to make the rushed announcement, she said.
A person who has been found guilty of murder has not been put to death by the state since 1999.
Even though Schorn wants the death sentence, Shapiro says that executions will not be allowed in the state as long as he is governor.
Police say that Gordon, 26, shot and killed his stepmother Karen Gordon, 52, and his 13-year-old sister Kera Gordon in their Levittown home after stealing a car in Trenton, New Jersey. Based on what the cops say, he then crossed into Pennsylvania.
After killing Taylor Daniel, 25, the mother of his children in one house in the same town, he is said to have gone to another house and hurt the grandmother of his grandkids with a gun.
The cops say that the two kids were in the area when the incident took place.
Following that, he stole another car and ran back to New Jersey, where the police finally caught him.
The first time Gordon met Judge John Galloway, he seemed confused because he didn’t have a lawyer with him.
“Not really,” Gordon answered Galloway when asked if he knew the charges were being read at a preliminary hearing.
He replied, “Yes, sir,” as the judge repeated what he had already said. He refused to be sent back to Pennsylvania earlier on Wednesday.
