Salon Shooting in Seal Beach Leaves Eight Dead, One Wounded
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(Photo by Jebb Harris, Orange County Register)
When police arrived on the scene, six of the victims were already dead. Two victims later died in the hospital.
From The Los Angeles Times:
One of the victims was apparently the owner of the salon, Randy Fannin, a relative said.
“Randy is dead,” said the owner’s niece, Tami Scarcella. “Randy is dead for sure.”
A middle-aged Anaheim woman who identified herself as Cindy said she was sitting in the chair getting her hair done by Fannin when a man walked in and started shooting.
“We thought it was maybe firecrackers,” she said. “But he just didn’t stop. Anybody he saw he was shooting.”
“It went boom, boom, boom,” she said, speaking outside the taped-off crime scene. “I was afraid he was going to shoot everybody.”
The afternoon shooting left the normally placid beach town struggling to make sense of the carnage. A policeman spokesman said the shooting had put the city and its small police force on unfamiliar ground.
Police apprehended the gunman less than half a mile away from the salon in a white pickup truck that he used to leave the scene. Two former employees said to media outlets that the gunman may have been the ex-husband of one of the salon's employees.
CBS News reported:
lenn Zachman, who owns a video news-gathering service, said he arrived at the scene of the arrest shortly after police and saw they had placed plastic bags over the man's hands to preserve possible gunshot residue.
He also saw a bulletproof vest on the back of a patrol car but didn't know if the man, dressed in a button-down shirt and pants, had been wearing it.
The man, in handcuffs, being placed in a patrol car and taken away about two-and-a-half hours after the shooting. A new white pickup truck that was believed to be his was parked on the modest residential street with its doors open.
The suspect was cooperative when officers, working from a description of the shooter, stopped him near the salon, Bowles said.
Shortly after the alleged shooter was arrested, police arrived at a house on Melody Lane in nearby Huntington Beach and escorted two women to a white car and then roped off the house with crime scene tape. Neighbors identified photos of the alleged shooter as their neighbor Scott. The house is registered to Scott Dekraai, and one of the licensed cosmetologists at the salon address was Michelle Dekraai.
Related: Eight Killed, 1 Injured in Seal Beach Shooting (ATVN)
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