After two years on the run, Daryl Beckett has been charged with murder in the 2023 shooting of his Chester High classmate, according to police. Read more Yong Kim / Staff Photographer

by Vinny Vella Published Sept. 23, 2025, 5:24 p.m. ET

Hours after two men were ambushed and shot multiple times, one fatally, as they drove home from their Chester High School reunion, one of their former classmates phoned a friend in prison to seemingly gloat about it.

Daryl Beckett, 36, said “life is good” in the October 2023 phone call, made not long after Christopher Gordy, 41, was killed as he drove on I-95 in Upper Chichester Township, according to court documents.

Police said Tuesday that Beckett seemed to insinuate he was the one who pulled the trigger over a decades-old high school gru

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