{"id":12250,"date":"2013-02-12T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12250"},"modified":"2013-02-14T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T21:06:36","slug":"ex-cop-on-shooting-spree-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=12250","title":{"rendered":"Cop Killer Dorner’s Down Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LOS ANGELES (AP Feb 14, 2013) \u2014 He styled himself as a Rambo-like guerrilla, someone trained to outwit and outshoot the police at every turn, and while Christopher Dorner left no doubt he could be unforgivingly violent, when it came to keeping ahead of the law during his deadly rampage, he made one mistake after another.<\/p>\n

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The last one \u2014 letting one of two people he tied up get to her cellphone and call police as he made off in their purple car \u2014 tipped authorities he was coming.<\/p>\n

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The angry ex-cop, who authorities say boasted that police agencies had no chance of capturing him except on his terms, appears to have been killed Tuesday in a fierce gun battle after he wrecked two getaway cars and had to make a last stand in a mountain cabin 80 miles east of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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The cabin went up in flames after authorities launched pyrotechnic tear gas canisters into it, and authorities were all but certain the charred body found inside afterward was Dorner’s. They are waiting for forensic tests to confirm that, but in the meantime San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday that authorities consider the hunt over.<\/p>\n

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Personal effects, including Dorner’s driver’s license, were found with the body, an official briefed on the search told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n

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Sheriff’s deputies were not trying to burn down the cabin with Dorner inside but simply flush him out, McMahon said.<\/p>\n

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“It was not on purpose,” he told reporters Wednesday. “We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out.”<\/p>\n

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Karen and Jim Reynolds said they came face to face with Dorner around noon on the day of his downfall. The couple said that they found him in their cabin-style condominium just a stone’s throw from the sheriff’s command post, and believe he had been there since Friday.<\/p>\n

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The couple said Dorner bound them, put pillow cases over their heads and fled in their purple Nissan. When he did, Karen Reynolds managed to get to her cellphone and call 911. The Reynolds told their story at a news conference Wednesday night, they said, to clear up recent reports that it was two female housekeepers who had found Dorner and been tied up.<\/p>\n

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Their account could not immediately be confirmed by law enforcement officials, but it matched earlier reports saying it was a married couple, and property records showed them as the owners.<\/p>\n

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The manhunt, one of the largest in recent memory, began last week after Dorner was linked to the killings of a former Los Angeles police captain’s daughter and her fiance.<\/p>\n

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Soon after the couple was found shot death near their Orange County condo, authorities linked their killings to a long, rambling rant they say Dorner posted on Facebook vowing to get revenge on the Los Angeles police and their families for ruining his reputation by firing him.<\/p>\n

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Dorner was dismissed for filing a false report wrongly accusing his training officer of kicking a mentally disabled man.<\/p>\n

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“I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty,” Dorner had boasted. “You will now live the life of the prey.”<\/p>\n

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As it turned out, none of Dorner’s four victims were Los Angeles police officers. The other two were a Riverside officer he ambushed at a traffic light and a San Bernardino sheriff’s deputy killed in Tuesday’s firefight.<\/p>\n

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“If you’re really trying to kill all those people, if that’s really your plan, and you’re a great tactician, then you don’t tell people,” said Jim Clemente, a retired behavioral analyst for the FBI. “You don’t tell LAPD in advance so they can put a bunch of bodyguards on people. He went and killed soft targets, innocent citizens who had nothing to do with him at all. He used those to scare people, and he used those sadistically to harm the LAPD officer he wanted to get at.”<\/p>\n

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After the first two killings, Dorner tried to steal a boat in San Diego and flee to Mexico, but the former Navy veteran tangled a rope in the outboard motor and couldn’t start it, authorities said. Then he fled to the Big Bear Lake resort area, where his truck axle broke, stranding him on Feb. 7, just ahead of a heavy snowstorm.<\/p>\n

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He may have caught a break when he found refuge in a vacant vacation cabin just across the street from a command post established for the hundreds of officers frantically searching for him.<\/p>\n

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Despite a search that involved helicopters and bloodhounds and officers going door-to-door checking hundreds of cabins, Dorner remained out of sight until he was discovered Tuesday at the cabin near the command post.<\/p>\n

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San Bernardino County Deputy Chief Steve Kovensky said searchers had not seen any forced entry when they checked it, but he could not provide details about exactly when that check was made.<\/p>\n

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Authorities, for the most part, looked at cabins boarded up for the winter, said Dan Sforza, assistant chief of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and often didn’t enter occupied homes where nothing appeared amiss.<\/p>\n

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As he fled in the Nissan, Dorner managed to elude authorities for a time by pulling behind two school buses and making a quick turn onto a mountain road. But he crashed the car there and had to steal another.<\/p>\n

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That’s when he confronted Rick Heltebrake, a ranger who takes care of a Boy Scout camp nearby, and took his pickup. Heltebrake was checking the perimeter of the camp for anything out of the ordinary when he saw Dorner emerge from behind some trees. He was dressed in military fatigues and holding a semi-automatic-style rifle.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t want to hurt you. Start walking and take your dog,” Heltebrake recalled Dorner saying as he pointed the gun at him. He fled with his 3-year-old Dalmatian, Suni, and immediately called police, who quickly found the suspect again.<\/p>\n

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This time he opened fire as he drove past a car carrying game wardens looking for him. One of them got out of his own vehicle and returned fire from his high-powered, semi-automatic rifle but apparently missed.<\/p>\n

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Out of options after crashing the pickup, the driver made a break for a cabin and barricaded himself inside, where he made his last stand.<\/p>\n

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Dorner’s mother released a family statement to the FOX affiliate in Los Angeles disavowing her son’s actions in his final weeks.<\/p>\n

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“It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we express our deepest sympathies and condolences to anyone that suffered losses or injuries resulting from Christopher’s actions. We do not condone Christopher’s actions,” said the statement Nancy Dorner gave to KTTV-TV. “The family has no further comments and ask that our privacy be respected during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n

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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremiah MacKay was killed during that final gunfight and another deputy was wounded.<\/p>\n

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MacKay, a detective who had been with the department 15 years, had a wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son, sheriff’s officials said. He had spoken to AP just last weekend, saying he hoped Dorner could be taken into custody without any more violence.<\/p>\n

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“You just never know if the guy’s going to pop out or where he’s going to pop out,” MacKay told an AP reporter. “We’re hoping this comes to a close without any more casualties.”<\/p>\n

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If Dorner’s body is identified, he’ll be the final casualty.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writers Christopher Weber in San Bernardino and John Rogers in Los Angeles contributed to this story.<\/p>\n

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Update Feb 13, 2013<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/a>BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) – A string of events that ended with the death of the man believed to be a wanted ex-Los Angeles police officer started when he encountered a mother and daughter pair of housekeepers at a cabin in the mountains east of Los Angeles.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Family member Jay Hylton told KABC-TV the pair wasn’t hurt. The Los Angeles Times \u00a0reported the women surprised Dorner Tuesday, he tied them up and then fled in a purple Nissan.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Times reported that one maid eventually broke free and called 911.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About a half hour later, the suspect got into gunfights with authorities, one of whom was killed, after barricading himself in a cabin where a charred body was found, along with Dorner’s driver’s license.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LAPD says its operations are back to normal.
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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) – The San Bernardino County sheriff’s office say it’ll use forensics to confirm it, but it believes that a charred body found inside a cabin in the Southern California mountains is that of fugitive Christopher Dorner. The search for the former Los Angeles police officer ended yesterday when a man believed to be Dorner bolted from hiding, stole two cars, then barricaded himself in a vacant cabin and engaged in a shootout in which he killed one sheriff’s deputy and wounded another before the building erupted in flames.<\/p>\n

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Feb 12, 2013…<\/p>\n

\u00a0BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer is barricaded in a cabin in the Southern California mountains.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Someone in the Big Bear Lake area reported a stolen vehicle Tuesday and described the suspect as looking very similar to Christopher Dorner.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The vehicle was found and the person ran into the forest and barricaded himself inside a cabin.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Authorities say a short time later there was an exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and the suspect.\u00a0
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Reported earlier..<\/p>\n

LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 The search for a former Los Angeles police officer accused of killing three people, including a cop, extends to the Las Vegas area, where he has a home.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Clark County property records show Christopher Dorner owns a small two-story, three-bedroom home in a neighborhood about nine miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n

Clark County property records show he bought the house in 2007 for about $265,000.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas police officer Laura Meltzer says patrol officers received information about Dorner on Thursday, including a photo.<\/p>\n

FBI Agent Patrick Turner says federal agents were watching for Dorner, but there was no immediate information that he was heading for Nevada.<\/p>\n

Nevada Highway Patrol troopers are watching for Dorner and his vehicle on roads leading to the Las Vegas area from Southern California.<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2013 Thousands of police officers in Southern California and Nevada\u00a0were hunting Thursday afternoon \u00a0for a disgruntled former Los Angeles officer. Christopher Dorner is believed to have gone on a deadly shooting rampage, after warning in an online posting that he would be targeting police. Officials say they\u2019ve assigned more than 40 protection details to keep watch over possible targets. And they\u2019ve issued a statewide \u201cofficer safety warning.\u201d Three people have been killed in the shootings, including a police officer and the daughter of a former police captain.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2013 A U.S. Navy base in San Diego has been locked down Thursday, amid the search for the former police officer wanted in the Los Angeles-area killings. Authorities say Christopher Dorner tied up an elderly man and tried to steal his boat\u00a0Wednesday \u00a0night.\u00a0 On Thursday, someone reported seeing a person matching Dorner\u2019s description near the naval base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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