Authorities are searching for the man who broke into a Los Angeles-area house and gunned down a father while his wife and son were home, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 61-year-old victim was attacked at about 6:26 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Arcadia, about 8 miles east of Pasadena, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 13-year-old son and his mother were pulling into their driveway when the intruder “approached them and forced them into the home” where there was a “confrontation” between the intruder and the father, sheriff\u2019s Lt. Steven De Jong told\u00a0Los Angeles ABC station KABC<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s not clear if the boy and his mom witnessed the shooting, but De Jong called it a “very frightening situation for the entire family.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 13-year-old son called 911 to report that his dad was shot by an intruder, De Jong said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A motive is not known, but De Jong said “it appears that this is possibly personally motivated, from my preliminary inspection of the crime scene.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This individual that made entry into the house engaged the male victim,” he explained. “So it appears that maybe he was the intended target.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A “couple” weapons were recovered at the house, but it’s not clear if they belonged to the suspect or the family, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s possible the dad “armed himself and attempted to defend himself,” De Jong said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No arrests have been made, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s homicide bureau at 323-890-5500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n