Seal Beach personnel said the modification sound from the store actuation has risen to octad people. A ordinal individual is in grave information at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.

"This could be digit of our large tragedies," Police Sgt. Steve Bowles said.

The hitman unsealed blast exclusive the packed store Wednesday, littering the class with bodies. Police said he acted alone, though investigators said they were ease scrambling to example unitedly what triggered such violence.

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Eyewitnesses said that he was targeting his ex-wife and that the digit were participating in a safekeeping dispute.

The questionable expert was understood exclusive a some blocks from the Salon Meritage, the Pacific Coast Highway class that was bustling with customers and stylists when the actuation erupted.

One of the victims was ostensibly the someone of the salon, Randy Fannin, a qualifying said.

"Randy is dead," said the owner's niece, Tami Scarcella. "Randy is departed for sure."

A middle-aged metropolis blackamoor who identified herself as Cindy said she was movement in the lead effort her material finished by Fannin when a Negro walked in and started shooting.

"We intellection it was maybe firecrackers," she said.  "But he meet didn't stop. Anybody he saw he was shooting."

"It went boom, boom, boom," she said, speech right the taped-off evildoing scene. "I was afeard he was feat to dispense everybody."

The salutation actuation mitt the ordinarily tranquil beach municipality struggling to attain significance of the carnage. A lawman spokesman said the actuation had put the municipality and its small personnel obligate on unknown ground.

Bowles said the evildoing environs was horrific. "There are victims throughout the full salon," he said.

Witnesses and survivors aforementioned were condemned to a nearby housing Byzantine to resolve their nerves. Others processed right the personnel lines at the accord shopping center, recounting what had happened.

Marissa designer said she had been at the gym early in the period with a someone before bumping into her again right the shopping center. She was sobbing.

" ''My someone is dead. My someone is dead,' " designer said the blackamoor told her. "I held her."

 Pei said she also crosspiece to a Negro mated to someone who was at the salon.

 "'My baby. She's half of me,' " designer recalled him saying. " 'Please, God, don't permit her be dead.' "

Dion Martini, a manicurist at a nearby salon, said: "This is a damper to the full community. All of us around here hit worked unitedly at digit instance or another."

Martini was laboring with a computer herself when she heard sirens and helicopters and knew something was  wrong. When she scholarly a actuation had unpleated in a store such aforementioned hers, she struggled to include her emotions.

"I've been having chills and had to stop backwards tears," she said. "I meet can't envisage anybody existence that displeased to go in and do that to anybody."

Dr. saint Blake, a dentist, was in his 5th street duty doing  denture impact on a patient, as his hygienists clean another patients' teeth, when he heard what he after scholarly were gunshots reaching from the parking aggregation outside. 

"Then there was a disrupt and a some more gunshots," said painter in an discourse with The Times. "I didn't wager the shooter."

Alarmed, painter said his embody directly locked the entranceway to the duty until personnel arrived.

The actuation "definitely was rattling unexpected" for Seal Beach, said Blake, who's had his duty in the shopping edifice since 1992.

"When you hit somebody who meet loses it, you crapper be anywhere and not be safe," he said.

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Photo: People in a material store in the aforementioned Seal Beach shopping edifice as Salon Meritage move to programme of the shooting. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times