Timeline of Salon Meritage shooting

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.

Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, confers with his attorney Scott Sanders during his sentencing.

Emotions ran high during victim impact statements at the Dekraai sentencing Friday.

Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, enters an Orange County courtroom for sentencing.

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.

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.

May 2, 2014: Scott Dekraai leaves court after pleading guilty to fatally shooting eight people at a Seal Beach hair salon in 2011.

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.

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.

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.

Oct. 21, 2011: Candles, flowers and notes of condolence left on the sidewalk outside Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.

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.

Oct. 13, 2011: A flower and poem left at the door of Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.

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.