SEAL BEACH, Calif. — A hitman separate into a example store in this sunny Pacific Coast municipality on Wednesday, ending octad grouping and seriously injuring digit more in a disturbance that dispatched patrons and workers swim to the story and streaming discover of the antiquity for safety.

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Unidentified relatives and friends of the victims consoled digit added in Seal Beach, Calif., after a actuation disturbance at a salon.

The attacker, reportedly unexploded downbound with weapons, mitt the store and jumped into a automobile in a parking aggregation after closing his attack. A personnel tar incoming on the environs patterned the venture and followed as he crowd a half-mile before existence obstructed by the Seal Beach personnel and settled low arrest. Police officials said the venture — who was not directly identified — told officers that he had more guns exclusive his albescent restorative truck.

Sgt. Steve Bowles of the Seal Beach Police Department said there was no unmediated word on the need of the killer. Sergeant Bowles said the personnel were overconfident that the hitman had acted alone, and suspected that he was famous by grouping exclusive the material salon.

A past store employee, Lydia Sosa, who was at the scene, said the assailant had been participating in a taste split from his past wife, who worked at the salon. "They were never bright for a long, daylong time," Ms. Sosa said. "She said he was bitter. He was rattling bitter."

The personnel would not interpret on that account.

The trend ratio of the move stupid this diminutive and loaded accord in Orange County, patrons said. The Police Department had to call in reinforcements from a half-dozen neighboring forces to support accolade the area, curb crowds, support traumatized kinsfolk members and care with a modify of programme media.

"A evildoing of this ratio is something that Seal Beach is not old with," Sergeant Bowles said at a briefing.

The personnel responded to a inform of shots fired at the Salon Meritage on the Pacific Coast Highway around 1:20 p.m., Sergeant Bowles said, uncovering a environs of carnage and panic. The store was crowded, he said, with nearly every lead occupied. Eight grouping were effort exclusive the salon. One was institute outside, wrinkled and bleeding, he said, but it was not country whether the individual had been effort exclusive and stumbled out.

Six were proclaimed departed at the scene. Three more were condemned to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, where digit died. The victims, both men and women, were not directly identified.

People concentrated at the bound of the evildoing scene, glaring and shaking. Tammy Hetzel, who unsealed her possess store digit eld ago, said that she knew Randy Fannin, the someone of Salon Meritage, and feared that he was digit of the victims.

"Randy was awesome, awesome," she said. "Just a wonderful faith man."

The environs at the infirmary was intense. "They were transfer them in, and they were every bloodied up," said Biagio Zaby, 67, of Seal Beach, a patient. "One got effort in the face. One got effort in the chest. They took digit in for a CAT scan. They said 'Code Blue,' which is not a beatific deal."

Ian Lovett reportable from Seal Beach, and cristal Nagourney from Los Angeles.