Local News in Brief : Chatsworth Man Slain in Car; Suspect Held

Los Angeles police arrested a 28-year-old Canoga Park man Thursday in the ambush killing of his former father-in-law, who was gunned down in his car earlier in the day as he prepared to leave for work.

David Vargus was being held without bail at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Devonshire Division in the 5:30 a.m. shooting of Bernardo Hernandez, 51, who was found dead in his pickup truck in the driveway of his Chatsworth home, Detective Lou Bobbitt said.

Hernandez, a gardener for the City of Los Angeles, had been shot in the head in the 9900 block of Casaba Avenue and was pronounced dead on arrival at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Bobbitt said.

Police have no solid motive in the killing, except that “exes will do what they do if they don’t like one another,” Bobbitt said. Vargus was divorced from one of Hernandez’s daughters about seven months ago, Bobbitt said.

Vargus was arrested about noon at his job at a Canoga Park equipment rental yard after investigators interviewed several members of the Hernandez family and searched the suspect’s home, finding two guns and other evidence, Bobbitt said.