Los Alamitos — After the funeral for Michelle Fournier at Cottonwood Church in Los Alamitos, family friend Jim O'Kane releases a white dove in memory of Fournier. He then released seven more birds in memory of the others slain in a shooting rampage Oct 12 at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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Los Alamitos — Stacy Ward, left, sister of victim Michelle Fournier, and Cliff Richards, right, father of salon shooting victim Christy Wilson, hug people outside Cottonwood Church in Los Alamitos during Fournier's memorial service.
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Los Alamitos — After the funeral for Michelle Fournier at Cottonwood Church in Los Alamitos, Fournier's father, Joe Burke, left, and family friend Jim O'Kane smile as they watch the release of eight white doves in memory of those slain at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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Los Alamitos — People stand outside Cottonwood Church in Los Alamitos before the funeral of Michelle Fournier.
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Los Alamitos — Seal Beach interim Police Chief Robert Luman, right, arrives with fellow officers to Cottonwood Church in Los Alamitos for the funeral of Michelle Fournier.
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Long Beach — At a memorial for Michelle Fournier in Long Beach, Linda O'Kane -- a longtime salon client of Fournier's -- calls for the crowd to release scores of teal balloons. Teal was Fournier's favorite color.
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Santa Ana, Calif. — Shooting suspect Scott Dekraai looks at his attorney, Robert Curtis, during Friday's arraignment hearing, which was postponed. Dekraai is accused of killing eight people in Wednesday's shooting at a salon in Seal Beach.
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Members of the Beach Futbol Club grieve at a candlelight vigil outside Salon Meritage. Shooting victim Michele Fast's daughter is a member of the soccer club.
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Hundreds gather for a vigil outside Salon Meritage in Seal Beach to mourn victims of Wednesday's mass shooting.
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Amid a growing makeshift memorial at Salon Meritage, Mary Stearns of Huntington Beach writes a message in chalk after posting a photo of her friend and slain salon owner Randy Fannin on a window.
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Ashlyn Bolt, 22, of Seal Beach places flowers in front of the salon.
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Jameel Assad of Seal Beach says a prayer for the victims. "I prayed, God please let all these people rest in peace," he said. "And forgive the man who did this insane act."
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Meritage stylist Jeffery Segall, left, hugs friend Larry Perrettano, shown with his wife, Phyllis, as they pay their respects at the salon. Segall took the afternoon off the day of the shooting because a client had canceled his appointment. The three spoke about what a good person salon owner Randy Fannin was: He visited Phyllis when she was in the hospital, and did her hair and nails.
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Sandra Dick of Garden Grove weeps for her friend Laura Webb, a stylist. "I was just here not long ago to give her flowers for getting married.... Now I'm back here placing flowers for her death," Dick said.
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City officials hold a news conference at the Seal Beach Pier on Thursday to discuss the massacre.
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Acting Police Chief Tim Olson at the news conference.
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Visitors weep as they look at the makeshift memorial at the salon.
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Seal Beach residents David Allister Stewart Maxwell and Ina Garner watch the news conference at the pier.
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A young woman weeps as she views notes, flowers, candles and balloons at a memorial for shooting victims.
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A note is placed amid flowers and balloons at a memorial for victims of the shootings at Salon Meritage.
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A photo of Randy Fannin, the owner of Salon Meritage, and his wife, Sandi, is posted at a memorial for shooting victims.
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A photo posted by Mary Stearns shows salon owner Randy Fannin giving her daughter a haircut.
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Family and friends gather on the front lawn of shooting victim Christy Wilson's home to pay tribute to her.
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A photo of shooting victim Christy Wilson with her husband, Paul, was placed at a memorial in front of her Lakewood home.
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Shooting victim Christy Wilson in a family photo with her husband, Paul, and three children.
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Paul Wilson, husband of shooting victim Christy Wilson, is comforted by a friend in front of a memorial for her in front of his Lakewood home.
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Scott Evans Dekraai, 42, of Huntington Beach in a booking photograph released by the Seal Beach Police Department.
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Police officers stand with a man who was being held in a patrol car at the scene of the arrest of a suspect near the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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Seal Beach — A picture of two of the victims, Michelle Fournier and Kristy Richards Wilson, has been taped to the window near the door of Salon Meritage.
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Carly Hecht holds back tears while she drops flowers off at Salon Meritage, where a steady stream of people stopped by to drop off tributes to the victims.
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Fellow salon owner and a friend of the victims, Donn Lopez, kisses the window of Salon Meritage in Seal Beach on Thursday morning, a day after eight people were fatally shot.
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A steady stream of mourners pays respects at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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A cross lies on the driveway of the home of suspected gunman Scott Evans Dekraai in Huntington Beach in the 16000 block of Melody Lane.
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A Seal Beach police officer checks the door at Salon Meritage on the morning after eight people were shot to death and a ninth was wounded.
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Flowers and a poem are left at the door of Salon Meritage, the scene of a shooting that left eight dead and one seriously wounded.
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Mary Stearns, a longtime friend of Salon Meritage owner Randy Fannin, cries in front of the shop on the day after the business was the target of a gunman who killed eight people and wounded a ninth.
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Flowers and a poem are left at the door of Salon Meritage.
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Investigators from local and federal agencies confer outside Salon Meritage, where a gunman opened fire, leaving eight people dead.
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Family members and friends comfort one another outside a community center a block from where eight people were killed when a gunman open fired in Salon Meritage.
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Orange County police investigate a shattered passenger-side window on a Range Rover at the scene where eight people were killed when a gunman open fired in Salon Meritage.
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Body armor, ammunition clips and other objects recovered from the vehicle possibly belonging to the suspect in the salon shooting are displayed.
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Orange County sheriff's deputies, agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Seal Beach police personnel inspect a vehicle possibly belonging to the shooting suspect.
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Police officers with the man suspected in the shootings at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach.
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Police officers and detectives gather at the door to Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, where a gunman killed eight people. A ninth victim is in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center.
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An SUV with a shattered side window is cordoned off with police tape near Salon Meritage.
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People in a hair salon in the same Seal Beach shopping center as Salon Meritage react to news of the shooting.
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Friends and colleagues pray together outside the scene where a gunman opened fire.
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Judy Watson, left, consoles Livia Chiurazzni at the scene where a gunman killed eight people at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach. A ninth victim is in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. Chiurazzni works at the salon next door.
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A Long Beach police officer tries to calm bystanders near the salon.
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Police officials check out the scene in front of Salon Meritage.
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Police officers and firefighters gather in the parking lot next to the salon.
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A police officer escorts a woman away from a business next to Salon Meritage.
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Police escort a salon worker away from the scene.
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Police discuss the shooting in the parking lot next to Salon Meritage.
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A police officer restricts access to streets around Salon Meritage.
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