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.
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Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, confers with his attorney Scott Sanders during his sentencing.
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Emotions ran high during victim impact statements at the Dekraai sentencing Friday.
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Scott Dekraai, who killed eight people at a Seal Beach salon in 2011, enters an Orange County courtroom for sentencing.
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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.
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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.
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May 2, 2014: Scott Dekraai leaves court after pleading guilty to fatally shooting eight people at a Seal Beach hair salon in 2011.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oct. 21, 2011: Candles, flowers and notes of condolence left on the sidewalk outside Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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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.
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Oct. 13, 2011: A flower and poem left at the door of Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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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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