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A mass shooting occurred on October 12, 2011, at the Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, California. Eight people inside the salon and one person in the parking lot were shot, and only one victim survived. It was the deadliest mass killing in Orange County history. Scott Evans Dekraai, who was involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife who was one of the victims, pled guilty to the shooting on May 2, 2014. The punishment phase of his trial has been delayed due to a dispute between the judge and the district attorney's office. ==Shooting== On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:21 pm PDT (20:21 UTC), police responded to reports of shots fired at the Salon Meritage hair salon at 500 Pacific Coast Highway.〔(911 audio recordings capture the chaos inside Seal Beach salon ) ''Los Angeles Times'', October 18, 2011.〕 The shooter was armed with three handguns, and reloaded at least once during the attack, which lasted two minutes.〔〔(DA to seek death penalty for alleged Seal Beach shooter ) ''Press-Telegram'', October 14, 2011.〕〔(Seal Beach shooting: ‘This coward will be brought to justice’ ) ''Los Angeles Times'', October 14, 2011.〕 There were about twenty people in the salon at the time, some managing to escape by running into the street or hiding in neighboring businesses.〔 Six people were declared dead at the scene, and three survivors were taken to a hospital where two of them later died of their wounds. Police later named the weapons used in the shooting as a 9mm Springfield, a .45-caliber Heckler & Koch, and a .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29.〔 The shooter's former wife, Michelle Fournier, one of the employees at the salon, was one of the victims. The suspect in the shooting, named by police as 41-year-old〔Police initially gave Dekraai's age as 42; his date of birth is October 17, 1969.()〕 Scott Evans Dekraai of Huntington Beach, California, was arrested without incident after being stopped while driving a white pickup truck about one half-mile (0.8 km) from the scene of the crime.〔(Gunman kills 8 at Seal Beach salon ). ''Los Angeles Times'', October 12, 2011.〕〔(California shooting: Eight killed at Seal Beach salon ) BBC News, October 13, 2011.〕 Dekraai was wearing body armor at the time of his arrest. The incident was the worst mass murder in Orange County since the Fullerton massacre in July 1976, in which seven people died. There had been only one murder in Seal Beach during the previous four years. A candlelight vigil was held in the evening of the next day for the victims of the shooting.〔(Seal Beach shooting: More than 1,000 attend emotional vigil ) ''Los Angeles Times'', October 13, 2011.〕 A fund set up to aid victims of the shooting raised around $400,000. A remodeled Salon Meritage reopened under the same name on November 18, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 Seal Beach shooting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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