Man Shot in Yorba Linda Home Invasion : Crime: Couple and 3 relatives are bound and gagged for 3 hours while 4 gunmen ransack home. A visiting uncle is wounded in the leg. Intruders are still at large.

A husband and wife and three visiting relatives were bound and gagged for almost three hours as four gunmen ransacked their home and fled with the family car, $1,500 in cash, stereo equipment and jewelry, police said Wednesday.

One of the relatives, a 56-year-old uncle, was shot in the left leg during the Tuesday night robbery and taken to Placentia Linda Community Hospital in Placentia, said Lt. James Winder of the Brea Police Department. He was in stable condition, a hospital spokesman said.

The robbery was performed in a style known by authorities as “home invasions,” in which Asian gang members specifically target other Asians in their own homes. Police estimate that 20 home invasions have occurred countywide since December.

Teip Quang Pham, the head of the household, said Wednesday that he was grabbed by four men in his driveway at 24355 Avenida de Marcia as he returned home from work Tuesday.

“I’m very upset,” said Pham, a 39-year-old furniture store owner. “They keep repeating that if I report to the police, they will take revenge.”

His wife, Kim Ha, 34, and her sister, Tammy Ha, 30, had arrived home at 6:55 p.m., moments before Pham did. They were also grabbed, Pham said.

The four men, wielding shotguns and handguns, then smashed the glass in the family’s back door. When they walked in they found Pham’s uncle and aunt, Dung Dinh Ha and Tu Thi Bui, 55, both of Westminster, baby-sitting Pham’s 3-month-old and 3-year-old children. The family’s third child was playing at a neighbor’s house.

The gunmen covered all of the adults’ faces with blankets and tied them, Pham said, then ransacked the house. The children sat unbound on the couch during the robbery.

“They put me on the floor. . . . They took out everything. Up until right now, I don’t exactly know what they took.”

Dung Dinh Ha was shot in the left leg by one of the gunmen sometime during the robbery. But because the family was blindfolded, Pham said he did not know how it happened.

“Why don’t they get caught?” Pham asked. “I’m getting very upset. They will shoot me if I’m a troublemaker. I don’t know what to do.”

The four gunmen, who appeared to be in their early 20s, fled the house in a green Honda and the family’s black 1986 Volvo before Brea police officers arrived at 9:50 p.m.

“We’re not sure how the family was targeted,” Winder said. “We’re not sure of a gang affiliation. We’re reluctant to tie the perpetrators to gang activity, but we will not exclude that as a possibility.”

Authorities familiar with home invasions say Asian families are targeted any number of ways.

Sometimes, gang members are distant friends of the targeted family who were once invited as guests into the home, said Detective Marcus Frank, who is in charge of Asian crime and gang investigations for the Westminster Police Department.

Other times, Frank said, victims are picked at random and simply followed home from work.