MOSES LAKE- A 30-year-old Moses Lake man is dead after being shot Sunday night in what appears to have been an attempted burglary north of Moses Lake city limits.

Grant County Sheriff's deputies and Moses Lake Police officers responded to a mobile home on Ottmar Road Northeast in Cascade Valley around 9 p.m. following a 9-1-1 call for a robbery in progress, according to Grant County Undersheriff Dave Ponozzo.

Officers entered the home of Timothy Mandelas, 44, to discover Joshua Montano had been shot several times in the chest with a pistol, a Moses Lake Police report stated.

Ponozzo said he did not know if anyone else was in the home besides Mandelas when the shooting occurred.

Montano was accompanied by two other males, Ponozzo said, one who stayed on the porch throughout the incident and the other who reportedly entered the residence with Montano carrying a firearm. Both fled the scene after hearing the gunshot and are still at large.

When he entered the home, Montano was reportedly armed with a knife, which Ponozzo said was recovered at the scene.

The homeowner reportedly did not know the alleged burglars, Ponozzo said.

"It is very early in the investigation and many facts are not yet known, but what we believe right now is a man entered the home during an attempted burglary and was allegedly shot by the occupant of that home," Ponozzo stated.

Montano was treated by Grant County Fire District 5 firefighters and AMR paramedics before being transported to Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake, said Ponozzo. He was later transferred to a Spokane hospital where he died from his injuries early Monday morning.

An autopsy performed in Spokane revealed Montano died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office.

Montano has a criminal history including a 2007 conviction for theft in the second degree, a 2008 conviction for three counts of assault in the fourth degree and one count of criminal trespassing in the first degree and a 2010 conviction for criminal trespassing in the first degree, according to Grant County court records.

Mandelas has cooperated with investigators regarding the shooting, Ponozzo said. He was booked into the Grant County Jail on suspicion of being a convicted felon possessing a firearm.

His criminal history includes previous arrests for forgery and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and a 2010 arrest for fourth degree assault-domestic violence, Ponozzo said.

In 1986 he was convicted of a felony, theft in the second degree, according to Kittitas County court records, and was involved with another felony charge in Spokane County Superior Court during the same year.