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Dad Kills Son in Ambush Before Suicide

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SAN DIEGO - A 14-year-old boy jogging with his high school cross-country team was shot and killed in an ambush by his father, who later killed himself after a standoff with police, authorities said.

The shooter stepped out from behind a parked van Thursday afternoon to fire the first several shots at the boy, then reloaded his pistol and fired again as pedestrians and the running team fled, witnesses and police said.

No one else was injured, but the gunman, identified by police as the boy's father, fled by car into a home about a mile away where he spent nearly 10 hours in on-and-off negotiations with police.

The 53-year-old man, whose name was not released, shot himself once in the head at 1:40 a.m. Friday and was pronounced dead, said Sgt. Richard Nemetz of the San Diego Police Department.

Witnesses and neighbors identified the 14-year-old victim as Evan Nash.

About a dozen members of the Point Loma High School cross-country team were jogging about 3 p.m. in the quiet community of Ocean Park when the shooting occurred, police said.

Two neighboring schools were briefly locked down and grief counselors were called to the Point Loma campus.

Police were investigating the domestic circumstances of the victim's father. There were reports the victim's parents had separated and were dealing with "custody issues," police spokesman Dave Cohen said.


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