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Shooting At Seal Beach: Eight Confirmed Dead, One  Critically Wounded 
 
 
The Huffington Post _Anna  Almendrala_ 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-almendrala)  First Posted: 10/12/11 05:16 PM  ET Updated:  10/12/11 08:35 
 
 

A shooting at a Seal Beach, California hair salon has claimed the lives of  
eight victims and critically injured one more.  
When Seal Beach police first arrived on the scene at Salon Meritage, six 
were  confirmed dead. Three people were transported to Long Beach Memorial 
Hospital,  but two of them died of their wounds shortly after their transfer. 
In a press conference, Sgt. Steve Bowles of the Seal Beach Police 
Department  confirmed that a suspect was taken into police custody less than half a 
mile  away from the scene of the crime. The suspect, a white male, was 
cooperative  when police detained him. Local television feeds showed police 
putting the man  in a police car, shirt open in the front and a calm look on his 
face. Bowles  could not confirm his name or residence. 
Multiple weapons were also seized when the suspect was detained, although  
it's not yet known whether he used more than one weapon during the attack.  
While Bowles did not confirm the kind of vehicle the suspect was picked up  
in, a _KCAL 9_ (http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/tag/kcal-9/)  camera focused 
for a time on a white, four-door  pick up truck surrounded by police 
officers.  
According to Bowles, every station at the salon was occupied at the time of 
 the shooting, and there were victims throughout the entire interior. He  
emphasized, however, that the victims' identities were not known at the time 
of  the press conference and encouraged community members to call 
authorities at  562-799-4100 if they suspect their family members were at the salon 
today.  
Bullet entry wounds appeared to be "on all different locations" of the  
victims' bodies, according to Bowles. Police are interviewing the survivors who 
 escaped the salon without harm. 
 


_Los Alamitos-Seal Beach Patch_ 
(http://losalamitos.patch.com/articles/6-dead-in-seal-beach-salon-shooting)  was  able to get a statement from the 
husband of salon employee Kathy McGhee, who  revealed that the alleged gunman 
had just lost a custody battle with a salon  employee after a recent divorce. 
Kathy McGhee was at the salon when the shooting  happened but managed to 
survive because she locked herself in a back room. 
On air, KCAL 9 reported that the suspect was ex-military and was wearing 
body  armor during the attack and at the time of his arrest. 
Tanya, a caller into KFI 640AM, claimed to have insight on the man found 
shot  in a car in the parking lot. She claims that the man was targeted by the 
suspect  when he was leaving the salon simply because he had parked his car 
next to the  suspect's car. Police have not confirmed this report. 
Multiple police agencies have joined the Seal Beach Police Department to  
support the investigation: Los Alamitos police, Orange County Sheriff's  
Department, Long Beach police and the Huntington Beach police are just a few of  
them.  
Here's background on the Southern California beach community, from the  
Associated Press:  
The city had only one homicide last year and none during the  previous 
three years, according to statistics compiled by the Police  Department.  
The quiet beachfront city of approximately 25,000 residents identifies  
itself as the Gateway to Southern California's Orange County and is located  
about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles. 
It is home to Leisure World, a gated senior citizen community of 9,000  
people, as well as the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station military complex.  
Two-thirds of the city's 13.23 square miles are occupied by the Seal Beach  
National Wildlife Refuge