Guard, 30, Surrenders in Slayings of 2 : Wife, Mother-in-Law Die in Koreatown Shooting; Boy, 15, Woman Wounded

A security guard surrendered to police early Friday, a few hours after he allegedly followed his wife to her sister’s Koreatown apartment, then shot and killed his wife and her mother, and wounded the sister and her 15-year-old son.

Los Angeles police said Suk Kyung Baek, 30, turned himself in at the department’s Wilshire Division about 2:30 a.m. Friday, three hours after the shooting rampage that left his wife, Kwang Kim, 28, and his mother-in-law, Jun Eui Kim, 65, dead.

The suspect’s nephew, whose name was not released, was listed in serious but stable condition at Midway Hospital with gunshot wounds to his arms, chest and stomach, a Midway spokesman said.

The boy’s mother, Kwang Shin, 35, was listed in stable condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to a Cedars-Sinai spokesman.

Baek’s 4-year-old son, who witnessed the attack but was not harmed, was to be given over to county Department of Children’s Services, said Detective Roger Gilbert of the Wilshire Division.

Baek, a security guard with Kimsh Security Service in Los Angeles, had argued with his wife shortly before the shooting, and followed her to her sister’s home in 900 block of South Normandie Avenue, said Dan Andrews, a detective at the Wilshire station. The mother was visiting the home at the time. Baek’s nephew, unaware that anything was amiss, let his uncle into the second-story apartment about 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Andrews said.

Baek then opened fire, perhaps with the .38-caliber revolver that he turned in when when he surrendered to police, Andrews said.

Baek was being held Friday at the Wilshire station, and was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. Bail was not set.

Domestic Problems

Officers said they were not sure what sparked the argument between Baek and his wife, but a co-worker said the couple had been having domestic problems.