Timeline of Salon Meritage shooting
Emotions ran high during victim impact statements at the Scott Dekraai sentencing. Dekraai is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the worst mass shooting in Orange County history.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, gets emotional inside an Orange County courtroom during victim impact statements at his sentencing Friday.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, confers with his attorney Scott Sanders during his sentencing.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Emotions ran high during victim impact statements at the Dekraai sentencing Friday.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, enters an Orange County courtroom for sentencing.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Aug. 18, 2017: Scott Dekraai was spared from facing the death penalty due to the handling of jailhouse informants by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)July 5, 2017: Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens testifies at a hearing about her department’s use of jailhouse informants and its failure to turn over relevant evidence to defense in the case of Scott Dekraai.
(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)May 2, 2014: Scott Dekraai leaves court after pleading guilty to fatally shooting eight people at a Seal Beach hair salon in 2011.
(Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)Nov. 18, 2012: Seal Beach police Cpl. Mary Martinez, right, one of the officers sent to the Salon Meritage on the day of the shooting, embraces Veronica Wilson, a police radio dispatcher, at a reopening celebration of the salon with a new owner.
(Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 14, 2011: Scott Dekraai makes his first appearance in Orange County Superior Court for the shooting rampage at the Meritage Salon in Seal Beach.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 14, 2011: Three days after the shooting at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas holds back tears while detailing the charges against Scott Dekraai.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 21, 2011: Candles, flowers and notes of condolence left on the sidewalk outside Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 13, 2011: A woman believed to have worked at Salon Meritage kneels and weeps before a sidewalk memorial set up outside the business on the morning after eight people were shot to death there.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 13, 2011: A flower and poem left at the door of Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)Oct. 12, 2011: Police investigators gather at the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, scene of a shooting that left eight people dead. Scott Dekraai, the ex-husband of one of the slain employees, was arrested.
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