Police: Suspect holding hostages in New Jersey home after killing 3 people in suburban Philadelphia

FALLS TOWNSHIP, Penn. -- A fishy has barricaded himself successful a location successful New Jersey aft allegedly shooting 3 radical to decease successful suburban Philadelphia connected Saturday, authorities said.

The greeting shooting successful Falls Township successful eastbound Pennsylvania forced the cancellation of a St. Patrick's Day parade and unopen down Sesame Place, a children's taxable park. Authorities successful Bucks County issued a shelter-in-place bid for the country for respective hours, but it was canceled by aboriginal afternoon.

Police said the suspect, a 26-year-old antheral who was presently homeless, knew the shooting victims.

The Trenton Police Department said the fishy is believed to beryllium hiding successful a location successful Trenton and that the residents were successfully evacuated with nary injuries. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was assisting, arsenic were the New Jersey State Police, the Mercer County Rapid Response Team and Mercer County Homicide Task Force. The FBI was connected standby.

Falls Township constabulary said successful a connection earlier that the shootings occurred astatine 2 locations successful the township. The fishy past carjacked a conveyance successful a Dollar Store parking batch and drove to Trenton, wherever helium barricaded himself successful a home.

Video from a WPVI helicopter showed galore constabulary vehicles surrounding respective blocks of homes successful Trenton, New Jersey, wherever the fishy is believed to beryllium barricaded with hostages. An serviceman roped disconnected an country with transgression tape, portion others took screen down vehicles. Another serviceman was stationed down a woody obstruction successful the backmost of 1 of the multilevel homes.

Middletown Township constabulary said the fishy has ties to addresses successful Bucks and Trenton and "stays successful Trenton primarily."

Shaun Murphy, who lives successful the Falls Township assemblage of Levittown, said helium was headed to the parade erstwhile helium saw that the roadworthy had been blocked.

"All the neighbors were extracurricular wondering what was going connected and past we got the announcement astir structure successful place," Murphy said.

"I did spot ambulances coming up the thoroughfare earlier without their sirens on," Murphy said. "My neighbors were conscionable extracurricular with maine past night, and we were conscionable saying however large of a municipality and however large of a vicinity it is."

The Oxford Valley Mall reopened aft being unopen for respective hours, Middletown Township constabulary said. Other businesses would marque idiosyncratic decisions arsenic to whether to operate.

Freida Frisaro contributed from Fort Lauderdale.

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