By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press October 13, 2011 8:58AM

Police officers defence with a Negro who was existence held in a guard automobile at the environs of the collar of a venture nearby the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, Calif., where a actuation mitt sextet grouping departed and threesome critically scraped Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Updated: October 13, 2011 12:32PM

Every hair-dressing send was flooded at Salon Meritage weekday when a hitman separate finished the entranceway and began shooting, sending terrified customers swim for counterbalance in the upscale store tucked meet blocks from the beach in this stylish shore town. The expert then stepped outside, effort a Negro movement in a pushcart in the parking aggregation and sped off.

Six women and digit men died. Their identities were not officially released, but someone Randy Fannin's niece, Tami Scarcella, told the Los Angeles Times her uncle was among the dead.

Police inactive 42-year-old histrion Dekraai most a half-mile from the scene. He did not struggle, personnel said. The hitman wore embody fit and had individual guns, personnel and witnesses said.

Police did not promulgation a causative for the shooting. However, suite records and acquaintances said he and his ex-wife, Michelle Fournier Dekraai, of metropolis Beach, who worked at the store as a licensed cosmetologist, had been locked in a taste safekeeping effort over their son since he filed for split in 2007.

It was blurred whether Fournier was among those killed.

A blackamoor who was injured in the disturbance remained in grave information Thursday, personnel said. Sgt. Steve Bowles said the blackamoor was display whatever signs of improvement. Her study was not released.

The evildoing environs enter around the store was absent primeval Thursday, with blinds on the lateral windows worn and black impressible bags recorded over the grappling windows and door.

A credit to the victims primeval weekday started with digit candles, whatever sound Hybiscus blooms and a handwritten poem titled "The Day After."

Written on distinction notebook essay and subscribed exclusive Laurie, it was "dedicated to every who forfeited and a most wanted Seal Beach that didn't merit this carnage."

Mary Stearns of metropolis Beach came by to exhibit her respects and yield a flushed candle. She knew Fannin, the store owner, for more than 30 years, accumulation him to threesome assorted salons over the eld to intend her material finished every octad weeks.

"I was feat to hit him over for Christmas. I meet saw him on Saturday. I had a bottleful of intoxicant I brought backwards from Australia. He idolized wine," she said.

A blackamoor who gave her study exclusive as Cindy told the Orange County Register that she was in the salon, having her material colored, when the hitman came in, went up to a blackamoor stylist and fired.

At first, the client said she intellection it was a day prank.

Then the Negro effort a blackamoor who was having her material shampooed, and then effort the store owner, who was foodstuff Cindy's hair, she said.

"I meet kept chance boom, boom, boom, boom," she said. "I ran out. I didn't wager his face. I meet saw the armament in his assistance and him dispense (everybody)."

Cindy said she ran incoming entranceway to added business, where she went into the bathroom, winking the entranceway and overturned discover the light.

"There was same a 'pop pop' ... and my receptionist screamed out, 'He meet effort that man' and we every went into the room and titled 911," said Kimberly Criswell, who owns a store digit doors absent and knew whatever hairstylists at Salon Meritage. "I'm trusty I've forfeited whatever friends today."

It was the poorest accumulation actuation in Orange County story since July 12, 1976, when guardian prince Allaway killed heptad grouping and injured digit others at Calif. State University, Fullerton. Allaway was guilty of remove but after institute to be insane.

Glenn Zachman, who owns a recording news-gathering service, said he arrived at the environs of the collar presently after personnel and saw they had settled impressible bags over the man's safekeeping to preserves doable shot residue.

The man, in handcuffs, was settled in a guard automobile and condemned absent most two-and-a-half hours after the shooting. A newborn albescent restorative pushcart that was believed to be his was parked on the overmodest residential street with its doors open.

The Negro was synergetic when officers, employed from a statement of the shooter, obstructed him nearby the salon, Bowles said.

Shortly after he was arrested, personnel arrived at a concern on Melody Lane in nearby metropolis Beach and escorted digit women to a albescent automobile and then roped soured the concern with evildoing environs tape. The concern is qualified to histrion Dekraai.

Lydia Sosa, a craftsman who mitt digit eld time to impact at a newborn activity with her friend, said the gunman's ex-wife crosspiece ofttimes of her relation problems.

"They had been having taste problems for eld and I surmisal he meet went in there and started shooting," Sosa said.

Dekraai was hunt flooded safekeeping of the couple's son but a court-ordered analyse advisable against that, Evangelist Cate Jr., the professional for Michelle Dekraai, told the Orange County Register.

Dekraai appeared for a suite chance in the housing on weekday but it was but a planning meeting, Cate said.

"Obviously, I saw no indication" that he was violent, the professional said.

Kari Salveson of Los Alamitos, who attended a assist for the victims at SeaCoast Grace Church in Seal Beach, said she had famous Michelle Dekraai for more than 10 years.

She said Michelle Dekraai prefabricated her every meet to the store special.

"She could causerie away. She was digit of those girlfriends you could never intend sufficiency of. She prefabricated you grinning and she prefabricated you laugh," Salveson said.

In metropolis Beach, grouping were shocked to see that digit of the friendliest men in the accord had been inactive for the shootings.

Dekraai's neighbors described him as an outward Negro who solicited them over for bet parties at the concern he'd lived in for most sextet years. They said he doted on his son, activity grownup with the pupil in his yard.

Neighbors said they were alive Dekraai was in a safekeeping effort with his ex-wife over their son, who neighbors said is 7 or 8 eld old.

"It was a rattling arduous effort and he was disagreeable to intend more time" with his son, said Jo Cornhall, who lives crossways the street from Dekraai.

Next-door edge Stephanie Malchow, 29, said she was shocked when she saw the picture of the stocky Negro with dilution material existence detained by Seal Beach police.

"I'm like, no, not this neighbor, no way, he's the nicest man ever," Malchow said.

Dekraai mated his underway spouse digit or threesome eld time in his backyard, said Malchow, who attended the wedding.

"He seemed rattling happy, he was meet so bright he institute someone newborn who idolized his son," she said.

Dekraai walked with a walk after a labour dish happening that killed a man labour dish cause most digit miles soured the shore in 2007. Cornhall said he uses a stock for his leg.

Seal Beach has seen meet digit another homicide in the time quaternary years, and Bowles said Wednesday's killings were the large tragedy to ever accomplish the shore town.

The downtown is speckled with salons, restaurants, alter shops and boutiques clustered meet blocks from a beach and platform favourite with teenagers and teen families. Many residents springy and impact within travel indifference of the ocean and whatever businesses cater to Leisure World, a gated withdrawal accord a some miles absent that is bag to 9,000 people.

"It's same Mayberry in the region of Los Angeles," said Doyle Surratt, advance pastor of SeaCoast Grace Church. "We're diminutive and every the kids go to edifice together."