*(CNN) — UPDATE: Andre Gordon, the man accused of killing three people in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, Saturday morning is in custody, according to police.
“He’s in custody. No one else was injured,” said Trenton, New Jersey, police director, Steve Wilson.
The 26-year-old suspect allegedly killed three people at two different homes in Pennsylvania before carjacking a driver and heading for New Jersey.
Authorities in Trenton, New Jersey, who were looking to apprehend Gordon, initially believed he was barricaded inside a home, prompting a perimeter of the area to be set up, Wilson said.
“Apparently, before the perimeter was completed, the suspect was able to get out of the location unseen.”
“However, our information was that he was still in there,” Wilson added.
“The suspect was actually walking on New York Avenue,” Wilson said. “He was stopped and identified and taken into custody.”
Gordon was taken into custody without incident, Wilson said.
Here’s what we reported earlier:
A man, identified as 26-year-old Andre Gordon, has barricaded himself with several hostages in Trenton, New Jersey, after killing three people in Falls Township, Pennsylvania, Saturday morning, according to local officials.
“We are investigating a spree killing that took place in the township this morning,” Jeff Dence, chairman of the town’s board of supervisors, told CNN. “It is domestic related. Three people were killed at two different residences.”
Falls Township Police say officers were called just before 9 a.m. to investigate a reported shooting on Viewpoint Lane in Levittown.
Authorities say Gordon, who was driving a stolen vehicle, fatally shot two people who lived at the residence.
Following the shooting, Gordon went to Edgewood Lane, where he fatally shot another individual. After the shootings, police say Gordon then carjacked a driver at gunpoint in the parking lot of a Dollar General on Bristol Pike in Morrisville. The driver was not injured, according to police.
Falls Township Police said that they believe Gordon knew all of the victims except for the driver. He is “believed to be currently homeless and has ties to the Trenton, New Jersey, area,” they added in a statement.
Dence described the suspect as armed and dangerous. “We are investigating with the assistance of the district attorney’s office and the FBI.”
Police say Gordon is approximately 6’1”, with a thin build, and was last observed wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt.
“He is believed to have an assault rifle which he used to commit these crimes. It is believed that Gordon may have additional weapons,” the police statement adds.
CNN has contacted the FBI for information but has yet to hear back.
“The suspect is believed to be in a house on Phillips Ave in Trenton. The residents have been successfully evacuated with no injuries. At this time FBI resources are on standby while the ATF, NJSP, Mercer County Rapid Response Team and Mercer County Homicide Task Force are also on scene with the Trenton Police Department,” Trenton Police Detective Lt. Lisette Rios said in a statement.
The Honda CRV that Gordon carjacked was found in Trenton, New Jersey, around 11:38 a.m., Falls Township Police said.
Now that the suspect is in Trenton, Falls Township will lift its shelter-in-place order, Dence said.
Pennsylvania State Police says they are assisting with the investigation.
Gov. Josh Shapiro said in an X post that he had been “briefed on the developing incident” and urged people in the area to “shelter in place and listen to law enforcement’s direction.”
Falls Township is approximately 28 miles northeast of Philadelphia. The town is close to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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