Pennsylvania shootings: three people dead and perpetrator on the run

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U.S. authorities reported that three people were killed in shootings this Saturday morning in a town near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and identified the perpetrator as a man who fled in a stolen vehicle that was found in New Jersey.

According to NBC, the police recorded the shootings in the town of Levittown and attribute them to a 26-year-old man named Andre Gordon, who allegedly shot and killed three people he knew with an assault rifle in separate incidents in two housing blocks.

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The two shootings occurred around 9:00 in the morning, local time in Pennsylvania. The attacker moved to the houses in a stolen vehicle and then changed it for another, stealing it at gunpoint from a stranger in a parking lot in the town of Morrisville, ABC 6 reported.

The stolen vehicle in which he fled was found in the town of Trenton (New Jersey) about three hours later, the media reported.

Authorities believe that Gordon could have additional weapons and be dangerous.

According to the suspect's photo released by the police, he is a tall, thin African-American young man, and he was seen wearing a black sweatshirt.

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The owner of the stolen vehicle in which the suspect fled was unharmed and no more victims have been reported.

Authorities in Pennsylvania took security measures due to the shooting: Bucks County canceled its St. Patrick's Day parade and the town of Falls Township, which received the first emergency calls, asked residents to take shelter at home.