LOCAL : Vietnam Veteran Kills Wife, Man He Mistook as Lover, Police Say

A distraught Vietnam veteran, wearing combat camouflage and armed with three guns, fatally shot his estranged wife and a man he apparently mistook as her lover in San Pedro today, detectives and neighbors said.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Harbor Division said Robert Dils Jr., 46, who has been separated from his 44-year-old wife, Diana, since December, 1988, marched into her home in the 2000 block of South Leland Street shortly after 9:30 p.m.

The couple’s 18-year-old son, Robbie, and 20-year-old daughter, Shannon, told neighbors that they fled from the house before Robert Dils opened fire. Shannon Dils said her father mistakenly shot her boyfriend, Salvatore Sabella, 24, as he sat in a chair in the living room. Dils then cornered his wife in a back bedroom and shot her, neighbors said.

Robbie and Shannon Dils ran to the home of a neighbor, who called police. Officers said Robert Dils, a mechanic in a nearby service station, surrendered at the home without incident and was booked at the Harbor Station on suspicion of murder.