SAN PEDRO : Man Sought in Slayings of Wife, Son Kills Himself

A 62-year-old man who had shot his estranged wife to death and critically wounded their 10-year-old son in San Pedro was found dead in Los Angeles on Monday, Los Angeles police said.

Lt. Sergio Robledo said Edward Kyu Lee was the victim of an apparent suicide. He shot himself in a hotel room in the MacArthur Park area, and his body was found by a hotel maintenance man about 17 hours after the shootings of his wife and son.

Investigators said Lee, a Koreatown resident, went to his wife’s beauty salon on South Gaffey Street about 6:15 p.m. Sunday and demanded to see his 15-year-old son. When Lee’s wife, Sau Thi Lee, 39, told him the teen-ager was not there, Lee shot her to death and then shot the younger boy, who had witnessed his mother’s death, officers said. Neither boy was identified by police.