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Man shot, wife and child beaten

11:56 AM CDT on Friday, March 16, 2007

By KIMBERLY DURNAN / The Dallas Morning News
kdurnan@dallasnews.com

Robert Flagg / WFAA-TV
Police investigators looked for clues around the home Friday morning.
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Police are searching for six men who entered a West Dallas home Friday morning, beat up a family and shot the father before fleeing.

Gabriel Guel, 37, was listed in critical condition at Parkland Memorial Hospital but was expected to survive, Dallas police said. His wife was listed in serious condition. Their eldest son was taken to Children’s Medical Center Dallas with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

Police said the armed men kicked in the door of a home in the 2500 block of Kenesaw Drive about 3:30 a.m. The intruders rounded up the couple and their three children, ages 8 to 16.

The men searched the house, found some money and demanded more, Dallas police Senior Cpl. Donna Hernandez said. The home invaders pistol-whipped everyone but the youngest child, then took the father into another room where he was shot twice.

A motive in the attack was unclear, police said. “Right now we don’t know, but it looks like they specifically targeted this family,� Senior Cpl. Hernandez said.

Police said at least two suspects were armed with handguns, and one had an assault rifle similar to an AK-47. One suspect was described as a 27-year-old man with gold teeth and wearing a red jersey and blue jeans. A second suspect was described as a 25-year-old man wearing a black shirt and a hairnet and baseball cap.

They were believed to have fled in an older model gray or silver Lincoln.

Residents in the neighborhood said the street was usually quiet and peaceful. Trinidad Balderer, 52, lives nearby and said the family members were nice neighbors who had frequent visitors.
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It just angers me when I read this. After hearing about it, I just loaded up my last 4 mags with hollow points.