Police in California arrested Wednesday a suspect wearing body armor and possessing several weapons after six people were shot dead inside a hair salon in Seal Beach.

Seal Beach police believe the man was the one who shot employees and customers of Salon Meritage in the 500 block of Pacific Coast Highway. The gunman also wounded three other people, who were taken to the Long Beach Memorial Hospital.

The suspect was stopped inside his car half a mile from the crime scene and was taken to jail for interrogation, said Seal Beach police Sgt. Steve Bowles, according to the KTLA News and Los Angeles Times. The suspect did not resist arrest, Bowles said.

Investigators from Seal Beach have yet to establish the motive for the shooting.

The salon shooting was the second worst mass killing in Orange County. On July 12, 1976, Edward Charles Allaway shot nine people at the California State University in Fullerton killing seven of them.

Allaway, a 37-year-old library custodian at the university, used a semi-automatic rifle to shoot his victims before fleeing the campus. He drove to a hotel in Anaheim and there reported the shooting to the police.

Allaway was charged and convicted for multiple murder. Experts found him insane because he was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. He remains detained at the Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino.

The scene of the mass shooting in Seal Beach, California.