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A father and his four-year-old son were killed and his wife and two other young children were wounded by a masked gunman who set fire to their home in?Inglewood.
[Update: 4:44 p.m.: "Our SWAT team is still working in the burnt building and we still have several units doing grid searches throughout about a 2 1/2 block radius around the site,?Lt. James Madia of the Inglewood Police Department said at a press conference. "We've put out a crime broadcast to agencies around the county. And we're starting to work with our partners at the federal level to get the word out so we can start expanding the size of the manhunt."]?
The shooting spree began around 4:30 a.m. this morning?at a residence on the 4900 block of W. 99th Street near the 405 freeway.
Five neighboring houses have been?evacuated as a SWAT team is using police dogs to search for the attacker, who may have lived in a rear house on the?property, Inglewood Police?Chief Mark Fronterotta told KABC.
"Right now we?re looking for a male black, 55, 5 foot 6, 160 pounds, wearing a dark ball cap and at the time of the shooting was wearing what people describe as a painter's mask,"?Lt. James Madia of the Inglewood Police Department told KPCC.
According to KTLA, officials say the home was set on fire prior to the gunfire. Firefighters were initially hampered from fighting the fire, which included the back guest house, because of the gunman who was believed to have been holed up in one of the structures.
Officials say a 6-year-old boy and a 7-year-old child are in critical but stable condition. Their mother was shot in the knee and the pelvis as she was trying to carry the youngest child out of the house.?The chief says the father was shielding two of his children when he was?shot.
Police have no?motive, but the gunman may have been a tenant who was recently evicted.
Meanwhile an 8-year-old child was also rushed to the hospital but doesn't seem to have any serious injuries.
Officials are asking neighbors stay inside their homes until the suspect is apprehended.
Source: http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/10/20/10619/inglewood-family-6-shot-two-killed-house-set-fire/
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