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In October 2011, a former tugboat captain named Scott DeKry strapped on a bulletproof vest and armed himself with three handguns.

He was 42, a portly, graying, slovenly looking man.

That morning, he had argued on the phone with his ex-wife about the custody of their eight-year-old son.

It had left him enraged. She was a hairstylist, and he was a familiar face where she worked

at the Salon Maritage on Pacific Coast Highway in Seal Beach.

So he was easily identifiable when he entered the beauty salon around 1.20 p.m. and began killing people execution style, with close-range shots to the head and chest.

They tried to run or find shelter in adjacent rooms.

One hairdresser who hid in a bathroom could hear a victim's last words before a cry

gunned her down.

Please stop.

Don't do this.

In the space of about two minutes, he killed eight people and seriously wounded a ninth.

He killed his ex-wife, Michelle Fornier, along with her co-workers, Victoria Buzzo, Laura Elodie,

and Christy Wilson. He killed salon owner Randy Fanon. He killed Michelle Fast and Lucia Condis, who were customers.

He shot a 73-year-old woman named Hattie Streets, who was critically injured but survived.

DeCry then walked outside and spotted a 64-year-old local man named David Coet sitting behind the

wheel of a parked SUV.

He walked up and shot him through the window, killing him.

The cry drove off in his Toyota Tundra pickup, but the Seal Beach police had a description of the

shooter's truck and stopped him just down the road minutes later.

They ordered him out at gunpoint and put a paper

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