The family of a 48-year-old father of three is pleading for answers after their dad was killed in a car to car shooting as he was heading home from work.

Police said a driver pulled up next to Carlos Hernandez and open fire.

But his family says he was a safe driver and he drove for a living.

He was just a mile away from home where Family members gathered Wednesday night, consoling each other through pain.

Carlos Hernandez Jr. said a police officer showed up at the door in the middle of the night to tell him why his father did not make it home.

“To wake up, 3 in the morning, police telling you your dad passed away … I told him, ‘Are you joking? Really?” Hernandez Jr. said through tears.

His father had just gotten of work as a delivery truck driver. After 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, police say he got off at Imperial Highway off the 105 Freeway near central in his Scion.

Investigators say security footage from a gas station shows a dark colored sedan following close behind him.

The driver pulled up aside Hernandez and fired three to five shots, killing the father of three.

Police think it may have been a road-rage incident, a theory his family cannot comprehend.

“He never got argument with anyone,” his son said. “He always … go to work, come home.”

Katherine Hernandez, the victim’s daughter said he was just a hard worker.

“The fact that he didn’t finish raising me or my younger brother,” she said. “It’s just heartbreaking for all of us.

Hernandez also has a 7-year-old son who doesn’t know what happened.