Details emerge in Bucks County shooting incident
Youngest victim was 13 years old
Few details are known about what led to a spree of violent attacks Saturday morning in Lower Bucks that left two women and a teenage girl dead, and another woman beaten and hospitalized.
While police continue to investigate the crimes they say were carried out by 26-year-old Andre Gordon Jr., here’s everything we know about the victims of his alleged attacks.
Kera Gordon: Youngest victim in shooting spree
Gordon’s 13-yearold sister, Kera, and his stepmother, Karen Murphy-Gordon, 52, were his first victims early Saturday, after Gordon broke into their home on Viewpoint Lane in Falls Township, authorities said.
Kera Gordon was an 8th grader at Charles Boehm Middle School in Pennsbury School District. It is believed she lived at home with her parents and a sister.
Pennsbury officials made counselors available Sunday to provide support to students, families and staff members.
Karen MurphyGordon: Stepmother killed in Levittown
Karen MurphyGordon was Kera’s mother and Gordon’s stepmother, authorities said.
She ran a tax preparation business out of the home she and her family lived at since 2008 in Levittown’s Vermillion
Hills section.
Neighbors said the family was Jamaican, and always seemed friendly, exchanging hellos in the quiet neighborhood. Other family members were in the home at the time of the shooting, but authorities did not identify how they were related to Karen or Kera.
Taylor Daniel: A mom to two young daughters in Levittown
Taylor Daniel, 25, was allegedly shot and killed by Gordon at her home on Edgewood Lane after the violence on Viewpoint. The couple had two daughters together, who were home but left unharmed Saturday, according to police.
Daniel and Gordon both graduated from Pennsbury High School in 2016. Daniel then attended Bucks County Community College to study criminal justice in August that same year, according to her Facebook page.
Daniel’s Facebook page, which made its last public post in August 2022, is filled with photos of her with her two daughters, the oldest born in 2018.
It’s unclear if Gordon and Daniel were still in a relationship since neither hers nor Gordon’s Facebook accounts seemed to include photos of either one of them together. Gordon and Daniel formerly shared an apartment together, according to public records.
Nancy Daniel: Survived Levittown shooting attack
The only real indication that the two had children together was a family photo posted by Taylor’s mother, Nancy Daniel, whom Gordon allegedly bludgeoned with an AR-15 rifle. She was hospitalized but expected to survive.
The photo on Nancy Daniel’s Facebook page appears to be from a party celebrating the recent birth of Taylor’s youngest daughter. Gordon and Taylor Daniel are seen sitting beside each other, surrounded by Nancy and Taylor’s brother and her father — both named John.
The older John Daniel, Nancy’s husband and Taylor’s father, died of lung cancer in January 2022.