Beaudette Family(LOS ANGELES) — A scientist mysteriously killed while camping with his two young daughters died from being shot in the head, according to the coroner’s office.
Tristan Beaudette, 35, was gunned down at about 4:45 a.m. Friday at Malibu Creek State Park in Southern California, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office and Department Medical Examiner said. No one else was injured, the sheriff’s office said.
The coroner’s office didn’t release additional information.
Beaudette was with his 2- and 4-year-old daughters when he was shot, officials said. His wife wasn’t on the camping trip because she was studying for an exam, according to ABC station KABC-TV.
“The grief and trauma this loss has caused our close-knit family is indescribable,” Beaudette’s family said in a statement.
But the killing remains a mystery as no arrests have been made, the sheriff’s office said.
At least five other shootings were reported in and around the park in the last several years, leaving at least one person injured, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The sheriff’s department said it hasn’t found any direct links with previous shootings and Beaudette’s killing but that it is reviewing some of the earlier incidents, according to the Times.
Anyone with information about Beaudette’s killing is asked to call the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500.