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Andre Gordon Jr. Sentenced to Life for 2024 Triple Family Murders

After pleading guilty to first-degree murder, he received three consecutive life terms plus more than a century behind bars for employing an unregistered ghost gun in a March 2024 rampage.

Overview

  • Gordon entered guilty pleas on May 28 to three counts of first-degree murder for killing his stepmother, half-sister and ex-girlfriend.
  • Judge Raymond F. McHugh imposed three consecutive life sentences alongside 156½ to 313 additional years for burglary, robbery and assaults on corrections officers.
  • Evidence presented in court showed he used a 7.62mm ghost gun with an extended magazine and methodically “hunted” his victims across two homes.
  • At his ex-girlfriend Taylor Daniel’s Levittown residence, he fatally shot the 25-year-old in front of her two young daughters as they hid nearby.
  • He fled to Trenton, New Jersey, carjacked a vehicle and was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with police.