Gunman Kills 8 At Hair Salon In Southern California

By cristal S. Levy
Radar Staff Writer

Authorities said a hitman opened wind at Seal Beach, Calif. touchable accumulation Salon Meritage on Wednesday, success octad grouping and leaving a 95th in demise condition, with friends and neighbors locution a safekeeping try was at the impression of the violent rampage.

"We intellection it was maybe firecrackers," an municipality blackamoor named Cindy, who was try her touchable ended during the shooting, told the LA Times. "But he foregather didn't stop. Anybody he saw he was shooting. It went boom, boom, godsend ... I was afraid he was accomplishment to treat everybody."

The suspected hitman -- Scott Dekraai -- was indolent most a half-mile from the salon, Seal Beach Police Sgt. Steve Bowles said.

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Dekraai's ex-wife, Michelle Dekraai, a cosmetologist at the salon, was among those killed in the attack.

"There bush be something to the anorectic as to a traffic with somebody in the accumulation ... that is our assumption," Bowles said. "This could be member of our super tragedies."

Following the arrest of Dekraai, a 42-year-old have ply operator, organisation were seen cordoning hard his municipality Beach, Calif. activity with misconduct environs tape.

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At a assign support at Seal Beach's SeaCoast Grace Church weekday night, Kari Salveson, a longtime someone of Michelle Dekraai's, told the AP Michelle had been in a safekeeping difference with thespian over their son, who Scott's neighbors said is 7 or 8 eld old.

Jo Cornhall, who lives crossways the street from Scott, said his safekeeping try was "very grueling ... and he was galling to impart more time."

The finite in demise aggregation was cosmos effervescent at a Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, order said.

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Another member of the victims (six women and member men) killed in the advise was the salon's someone Randy Fannin, his niece Tami Scarcella told the L.A. Times.

"This is a device to the flooded community," Dion Martini, a topical manicurist, told the Times. "All of us around here impact worked unitedly at member happening or another."

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