▶ Dad charged with killing gay son

A Los Angeles man charged with fatally shooting his 29-year-old son for being gay had repeatedly threatened to kill him over his sexual orientation, prosecutors say. Amir Issa, 29, was found shot to death just outside the family home on Tuesday. While the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged father Shehada Issa, 69, on Friday with murder as a hate crime in the son’s death, investigators were trying to determine responsibility for a second killing at the home, that of Amir’s mother, Rabihah Issa, 68, who had been stabbed. Shehada Issa told police he shot his son Amir in self-defence after he discovered his wife’s body in their house.