Deputies ID father fatally shot at California camping site

CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — A drug company chemist who was shot to death while camping with his two young daughters was planning to leave Southern California for a new life in the San Francisco Bay Area, his family said.

Tristan Beaudette, 35, of Irvine, was shot in the chest before dawn Friday as he slept in a tent at Malibu Creek State Park with his daughters, ages 2 and 4. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department released Beaudette's name on Monday.

There have been several shootings in the same general area in recent years but investigators said they had no evidence that they were connected to Beaudette's death and no suspects have been identified in his killing, sheriff's officials said.