Husband Found Shot to Death, Wife Wounded : Dispute: Police discover the couple with two guns between them in Fountain Valley home after an hours-long standoff.

Police found a husband shot to death, his estranged wife critically wounded and two guns on the kitchen floor between them after an hours-long SWAT standoff Wednesday.

Residents who heard a stream of shots fired in a condominium at 18250 Solano River Court at 6:55 a.m. called police, who heard more gunfire and saw two teen-agers running across the street as they arrived.

The brother and sister told officers that their father “had a gun and was threatening their mother,” Police Sgt. Darryl Nance said.

The youths fled the house thinking that “their mom was with them, but they turned around and she wasn’t,” Nance said.

The surrounding condominium complexes were evacuated, and police tried to contact anyone in the home where the shooting occurred. After four hours without a response, special weapons and tactics officers entered the home and found Oak Ja Kim, 42, wounded on the kitchen floor and Jong Kim, 48, dead in the living room.

Oak Kim had been stabbed, shot or both several times in the chest, Nance said.

She was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where she remained in critical condition, authorities said.

Detectives are investigating what happened, Nance said. Two high-powered guns were found on the floor between the couple, he said.

“The children don’t know what happened,” Nance said. “Only two people know what happened, and the husband is deceased, and the wife is critical.”

A preliminary investigation showed that Jong Kim had been living in Los Angeles with his family for several months, Nance said.

He apparently came to the area either late Tuesday night or early Wednesday and hid “somewhere in the neighborhood,” the sergeant said.

When his wife opened their sliding door Wednesday morning, the husband forced his way inside, Nance said.

“They had an argument,” he said. “What happened from there, we’re not completely certain.”

According to neighbors and court records, the couple long had a troubled marriage, and Jong Kim had beaten his wife and children several times. In February, 1984, Oak Kim received a temporary restraining order against her husband.

In the request for a restraining order, Oak Kim had asked that he be ordered to stay away from the family-owned restaurant in Los Angeles.

Oak Kim cited an incident in which her husband had appeared at their restaurant intoxicated and “slapped me, threw objects at me and grabbed a knife with the intention of killing me.”

In her declaration, Oak Kim also said that her husband collected guns and that “on several occasions . . . carried his handgun in and around the house, threatening to kill me.”

Jong Kim’s “combative and threatening behavior has disrupted my life and my children’s lives,” her declaration said. “I am constantly in fear of death/retaliation and worry about the safety and well-being” of their three children, a daughter now age 17 and sons, 16 and 22.

Nance said police have responded to the Kims’ home a few times before Wednesday on reports of domestic violence, the last time six months ago, when Jong Kim reportedly beat his son and daughter.

A 15-year-old youth living in the condominium behind the Kims said he was awakened Wednesday by his teen-age neighbor’s screams. It was also her screams six months ago that made the neighbor’s mother call police to report that children were being beaten, he said.

Another neighbor said she knew that Jong Kim liked to hunt. Wednesday, through an open door at the condominium, a stuffed bear cub could be seen mounted on a rock. Jong Kim had shot the bear, said Burton Hathaway, 15, who lives nearby.

He had visited the Kims a few times and remembered a gun case in the living room, he said.