Plea Deal Detailed For Man Who Killed 3 Bucks Co. Family Members

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA — The death penalty for the man who murdered three family members in a March 2024 rampage in Falls Township is off the table.

As Andre Gordon Jr. was sentenced Wednesday, Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn detailed the guilty plea to three counts of first-degree murder that will have Gordon serving three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

Watch the press conference below

Wednesday's sentence also includes an additional 156 ½ to 313 years in state prison for Gordon fatally shooting his 13-year-old sister; his 52-year-old stepmother, Karen Gordon, an Army veteran who died shielding her daughter and herself from danger; and 25-year-old Taylor Daniel, the mother of Gordon's two children.

Beyond the three counts of murder, Gordon’s guilty plea encompassed a litany of violent acts that terrorized families and caused lockdowns in Falls Township: attempted homicide, burglary, aggravated assault, robbery of a motor vehicle, robbery, unlawful restraint, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, theft by unlawful taking, possession of an instrument of crime, terroristic threats, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person.

Schorn said the plea followed detailed talks with the family.

Schorn and First Assistant District Attorney Edward Louka also read victim impact statements from surviving family members.

“I lost more than my sister and my niece,” Karen Gordon’s brother said. “I lost a piece of myself that I never thought I would ever come back from.

During the sentencing before President Judge Raymond F. McHugh, the prosecution presented a video compilation that included harrowing 911 calls from both shooting locations, body camera and surveillance footage depicting the crime scenes, and an interview with one of Taylor Daniel’s daughters conducted at the Bucks County Child Advocacy Center.

“There are no words to explain why this happened,” and that he could “feel the pain” conveyed through the impact statements and video, the judge said.

At 8:52 a.m. on March 16, 2024, Falls Township Police responded to a report of a shooting on the unit block of Viewpoint Lane in Levittown.

Gordon arrived in a stolen vehicle, carjacked in Trenton, N.J., and forcibly entered the home of his father. Doorbell camera footage showed Gordon confronting his father before violently breaking into the home. Once inside, Gordon started hunting the residents, authorities said.

Karen Gordon and her daughter sought refuge in a converted office, where Karen made a desperate 911 call. The recording captured her pleas, “My stepson, he’s the one shooting. Please I’ve got children in here!”

The 911 call also captured her daughter, repeatedly screaming “please, please, please, please hurry.”

This was followed by screams, gunshots, and then silence. Police found Karen and her 13-year-old daughter deceased upon arrival.

Gordon’s father and Karen Gordon’s other teenage daughter, along with a visiting relative, were unharmed, authorities said.

Gordon then headed to Edgewood Lane, where he forced his way into Taylor Daniel’s home at 9:01 a.m. and fatally shot her, authorities said.

The 911 call from Taylor Daniel captured her urging others in the house to lock themselves in their rooms, screaming, “He’s got a gun!”

The call also ended with screams, gunshots, and subsequent silence, followed by the cries of children, one calling for “mommy.”

Present in the home were Daniel’s 5-year-old and 3-year-old daughters, her brother, and her mother, Nancy Daniel. Nancy Daniel was injured when Gordon bludgeoned her with an assault rifle as she tried to intervene, requiring staples for a head wound, authorities said.

Schorn commended the bravery of Karen Gordon and Taylor Daniel for their heroic efforts to protect the children present during the attacks.

Gordon then carjacked a 44-year-old man in the parking lot of a Dollar General in Morrisville. He was not injured.

During a preliminary hearing, the carjacking victim identified the weapon used as a privately manufactured firearm, commonly referred to as a “ghost gun.”

A three-hour shelter-in-place order was issued until Gordon was located in New Jersey. The stolen vehicle was found unoccupied in Trenton at approximately 11:38 a.m. By 12:22 p.m., authorities learned Gordon was barricaded with hostages in a residence on Phillips Street. He was apprehended at 5 p.m., a few blocks away. He was later extradited to Bucks County.

In a separate case, Gordon also pleaded guilty to assaulting corrections officers at the Bucks County Correctional Facility in May 2024. He received a sentence of 42 months to 84 months in state prison for these assaults, which will run concurrently with his sentence in the triple murder case.