LANCASTER — One of two men who broke into a Lancaster doughnut shop today was shot to death by an employee, and the other suspect fled, authorities said.

A call about the shooting came in a little before 3 a.m. about the shooting at Sugary Donut the 43600 block of 15th Street West, according to Deputy Trina Schrader of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.

The wounded man died at the scene. Authorities withheld his name pending family notification.

According to a preliminary investigation, two men smashed the front window of the business and entered it, apparently intending to burglarize the shop, and an employee shot one of them, the sheriff’s department reported. The other suspect remained at large.

The shop was not open to customers at the time.