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During a “traumatic and emotionally draining interview,” he told investigators his father tried to shoot him and he ran inside the house to hide, Schmidt said.
“He said he could hear his brother screaming and hollering,” Schmidt said.
Police on Monday blocked off the street leading to the family’s single-story house, which is in a residential neighborhood behind a strip mall. A black tarp covered the view of the open garage; a minivan was parked in the driveway.
A woman who lives two doors down said her husband worked with the suspected gunman at an auto body shop in Buena Park, an Orange County suburb northwest of Anaheim.
“He was a very decent man,” Alisha Maldonado, 36, said of the father. “We’re very surprised by what happened.”
Family friend Filomeno Adarna told KABC-TV the couple applied for a loan modification eight months ago and it was denied.
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