Feb. 11--The sports director at a San Diego television station was shot Tuesday outside his home in the Scripps Ranch neighborhood.
Kyle Kraska, sports director at KFMB-News 8, was shot about 3 p.m. Neighbors reported hearing multiple gunshots. The windows of Kraska's Mercedes had been shot out.
Kraska, 48, was taken to a local hospital and was undergoing surgery.
Police spokesman Lt. Scott Wahl declined to assess the severity of the wounds, but KFMB indicated that Kraska had been wounded in the leg and stomach and that he was awake and talking to paramedics in the ambulance.
At 7:45 p.m., the station reported that Kraska was out of surgery and his prognosis for recovery is good.
Police are looking for a suspect -- identified as Mike Montana, 54 -- who may have sped away in a white mini-van with California or Arizona license plates and the words Superior Painting on the side, Wahl said.
No motive for the shooting has been identified, Wahl said.
Kraska, a native of Boston who attended Syracuse University, joined KFMB in 1999 after working at stations in New York, Florida, Texas and Los Angeles.
He was a morning and noon news anchor before being assigned to the sports director job in 2003. Among other things, he hosts a program after Chargers football games. He has won multiple awards.
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