Seal Beach shooting

An SUV with a shattered side window is cordoned off with police tape near Salon Meritage.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

People in a hair salon in the same Seal Beach shopping center as Salon Meritage react to news of the shooting.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Friends and colleagues pray together outside the scene where a gunman opened fire.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Police escort a salon worker away from the scene.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Judy Watson, left, consoles Livia Chiurazzni at the scene where a gunman killed six people at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach. Chiurazzni works at the salon next door.  (GIna Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

A Seal Beach police officer tries to calm bystanders near the salon.  (GIna Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Police officials check out the scene in front of Salon Meritage.  (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)

Police gather in the parking lot next to the salon.  (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)

A police officer escorts a woman away from Salon Meritage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A police officer escorts a woman away from a business next to Salon Meritage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A police officer restricts access to streets around Salon Meritage.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Police discuss the shooting in the parking lot next to Salon Meritage.  (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)