Two Killed by Spurned Boarder, Police Say : Crime: The man had unsuccessfully wooed the family’s daughter and was being evicted, officers say. He is arrested.

A boarder, whose romantic advances were repeatedly rejected by the homeowner’s daughter, killed two family members and wounded another when they tried to evict him from their Koreatown home, Los Angeles police said Wednesday.

Jun Young Cho, 38, who was being held without bail on suspicion of murder, began fighting and arguing with the parents and brother of Julie Kim, 23, about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday after he was told to move out of the room he had rented for five months, police said. “Unbeknown to them, he was armed with a handgun,” said Detective Dan Andrews. “He opened fire on the family.”

Police found Julie Kim’s mother, Hae Ja Kim, 49, and brother, James Kim, 19, shot to death in the family den. Jung Soo Kim, 57, was shot three times in the abdomen and was in critical condition Wednesday at UCLA Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.

Cho, an acquaintance of the family, had persistently asked Julie Kim to date him since moving into the house on the 1000 block of Arlington Avenue, police said.

“From the beginning she told him that she wasn’t interested in a relationship,” Andrews said.

About noon Tuesday, Cho approached Julie Kim at the Bank of America branch on Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, where she was in training to become a loan officer, authorities said. He asked her out again and she refused, police said.

Julie Kim told her parents about the office visit and the family decided to ask Cho to leave their home, police said.

Julie Kim was in her upstairs bedroom talking on a portable phone when she heard the gunshots and called police.

“By the time she got downstairs the fight was very much in progress and people had already been shot,” Andrews said.

Cho, who had not acted violently with the family before the shooting, was arrested as he ran out of the house, Andrews said.

Kim family members, who immigrated to the United States from South Korea about 10 years ago, operate a small snack shop on 6th Street near Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, said John Kim, owner of a luggage store next door. The shop, Micky’s Snack Bar was closed Wednesday.

He said he calls Jung Soo Kim “Uncle” because of their close friendship and knew of no previous problems with the boarder.

“He never worried about anything,” John Kim said. “He and his wife worked hard, seven days a week. I couldn’t stop crying for a while this morning when I heard the news.”

Several neighbors near the Kim’s spacious, two-story house on busy Arlington Avenue said the family was quiet and kept to themselves.