By NBC Los Angeles
Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET: INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- A 30-year-old father died shielding his children from bullets fired into their Inglewood home early Saturday by a gunman who set the duplex on fire.
The father's 4-year-old son was also killed and the man's wife and two other children were wounded in the attack, police said.
The shooting and fire in the 4900 block of 99th Street was reported about 4 a.m.
"The fire had been started before the shooting, and then the suspect came into the house with a painter's mask on,'' said Inglewood Police Chief Mark Fronterotta. "The father was in a position of shielding the children as officers came into the scene."
Police evacuated homes and urged others to remain inside behind locked doors while they searched for the gunman who was believed to be armed and may have hid in a home nearby, police said.
He was described as African American, 5-foot-6, about 55 years-old. Police said he may have lived in a rear unit on 99th Street near La Brea Avenue.
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"We do not know where the suspect is," said?Fronterotta said during a press conference Saturday morning outside the still-smouldering home.
The mother was shot in the pelvis and knee, Fronterotta said. She was seen by firefighters carrying the 4-year-old out of the house, Fronterotta said.
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Details were sketchy, but five gunshot victims were taken to hospitals from the address.
The other victims included a 6-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, Fronterotta said. The only one in the house not injured was an 8-year-old boy, he said.
Southern?California Edison officials were being called to the scene to cut power to homes while firefighters doused the blaze and officers investigated the shooting.
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