Man Arrested After His Son Is Shot in Leg

A 46-year-old man is suspected of shooting his son in the leg a day after a family argument that ended in the younger man’s arrest, police said Monday.

Thomas Scholander was arrested about 5 p.m. Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with a shooting behind a department store in the 9800 block of East Adams Avenue, Police Lt. Jeff Cope said.

Scholander’s 24-year-old son, Timothy Buie, was found lying in an alley behind the business with a gunshot wound in the leg, Cope said. Buie was treated at UCI Medical Center in Orange and later released.

Officers on the scene got a description of the assailant’s car, a white Chevrolet Caprice, and broadcast the information on police channels, investigators said. Another officer on his way to the scene then spotted the car near Newland Street and Slater Avenue and arrested Scholander with the help of a police helicopter.

Scholander and his son had been living at the same house in Huntington Beach until Saturday, when Buie allegedly got drunk and assaulted an aunt who resides at the same address, Cope said. The aunt called police, who arrested Buie on suspicion of public drunkenness. She did not file assault charges against him, police said.

Buie spent Saturday night in jail and was told by relatives that he could no longer live with them, Cope said. After Buie was released, he and his father met at the shopping center, and the younger man was shot, police said. Scholander’s nephew also was arrested in connection with the shooting but was released without charges, Cope said.

Police have not determined the motive for the shooting.