Combat: This is the trail of destruction that Dorner left across Southern California. Four people were murdered and three more injured during the rampage. Two women were also wounded by police in Torrance in a case of mistaken identity.
About 4. They called a fire engine to the scene, but they held their positions and watched the fire burn. Dorner's drivers license was found in the rubble, but forensic tests must confirm the identity of the remains. We do believe it is the body of Christopher Dorner. On Wednesday afternoon, thousands of mourners gathered for the funeral of Michael Crain, the Riverside police veteran - and former U. Marine - who was ambushed and shot dead in his squad car by Dorner last Thursday. On Tuesday night Rick Heltebrake, a Boy Scout leader, recounted the moment he came face-to-face with Dorner - just moments before the deadly encounter with police.
He said he was driving down a remote road in San Bernardino National Forest on Tuesday, when an armed figure stepped out of the woods. He pointed his rifle at me, I stopped, put my truck in park and put my hands up. As Dorner approached his vehicle, he noted that the former LAPD officer, who had already shot dead a couple in their car in Irvine and a police officer in Riverside, was dressed for a firefight.
Shootout: Sheriff's deputies can be seen firing shots near the cabin, as it begins to burn. Lucky to be alive: Rick Heltebrake was carjacked by Dorner and says the revenge-bent former cop pointed an assault rifle at his head, but allowed him to flee with his life - and his dog Suni.
He had a big ballistic vest on. He was dressed up to do some damage it looked like. Dorner ordered Heltebrake out of the car - but the man did not want to leave his Dalmatian, Suni, behind. He said that Dorner had turned his truck around and headed back down the hill and came across a sheriff's vehicle, which had been close behind. Hundreds of officers across Southern California had been on the hunt for the combat-trained military veteran who has sworn a vendetta against the Los Angeles Police Department for his sacking.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has called the search for Dorner the most extensive manhunt in the region's history and an LAPD spokesman said that some 50 families considered his potential targets would remain under guard for the time being. Police had been searching the snow-covered woods near Big Bear Lake, a resort town about 80 miles kilometers east of Los Angeles, after Dorner's truck was found late last week.
Dorner's previous encounter with authorities came early last Thursday, when police said he ambushed two policemen at a traffic light in Riverside, about 60 miles km east of Los Angeles. One officer was killed and the other wounded. The former U. Navy officer, is also suspected of exchanging gunfire on Thursday with police and wounding one officer in nearby Corona.
Under their noses: This map reveals that Dorner was possible hiding out in a cabin very close to the spot where he ditched his truck - which was the center of attention for a massive search effort. He first came to public notice last week when police identified him as a suspect in the slayings of a campus security officer and his fiancee, the daughter of a retired Los Angeles police captain. An angry manifesto posted last week on Dorner's Facebook page claimed he had been wrongly terminated from the LAPD in He vowed to seek revenge by unleashing 'unconventional and asymmetrical warfare' on officers and their families.
Carter Evans was describing the situation to anchor Sandra Mitchell via cell phone when authorities began exchanging gunfire. Gunfire was heard from several directions and an unidentified voice told Mr Evans ' Hey!
Surrounded: This cabin the building where Christopher Dorner was believed to be holed up after shooting at game wardens and wounding two sheriff's deputies. Crime scene: A highway patrol officer checks in with colleagues at a roadblock on on Highway 38 in San Bernardino County. Taking aim: Officers set up behind a pick-up truck near the cabin where Dorner was hiding out. Killer: Dorner, pictured in a January surveillance tape, reportedly shot two deputies on Tuesday as tried to escape out of the back door of the cabin, killing one of them.
Waiting: Heavily-armed officers waited around the corner of a cabin near the location where Christopher Dorner was believed to be holed up. Gun battle: Dozens of heavily-armed officers are poured into the region to surround the cabin where Dorner was pinned down. Monica Quan, 28, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, 27, were found shot in his car in the parking structure of their Irvine condominium complex on Feb. Quan was in her second year as assistant women's basketball coach at the University of California, Fullerton - the culmination of her love for the game that began when she was a child.
A standout high school basketball player, Quan once dreamed of playing professionally for the Los Angeles Sparks. She had a reputation for being fiery and intense. Quan met Lawrence while both were playing basketball at Concordia University in Irvine.
After several coaching jobs, she joined Fullerton, where she was known as 'Coach Mo. I loved her passion for life,' head coach Marcia Foster said. Later, as an attorney, he represented Dorner in the officer's failed appeal of his dismissal to a department Board of Rights.
Dorner allegedly posted an online rant naming Quan and others that says: 'I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I'm terminating yours. Keith Lawrence loved basketball so much that he would drive miles for a pickup game. But his professional goal was to be a cop.
In August, he was hired as an armed public safety officer at the University of Southern California, where he was praised for his professionalism. Before taking the job, he attended the Ventura County Sheriff's Academy and trained with Oxnard police.
He grew up playing basketball. As a player in high school and at Concordia University, he was known for his calm, no-drama attitude, even after scoring a half-court basket. Friends told the Orange County Register that Lawrence was flamboyant in other ways; he loved wearing bright colors, such as neon green and yellow, and loudly played every kind of music from hip-hop to country.
He and Quan were such basketball fans that Lawrence even wanted to propose at a Nike store. His younger brother, Chris, talked him out of it. Days before their deaths, Lawrence instead scattered rose petals on the floor of their Irvine home, got down on a knee and asked for her hand, the Los Angeles Times reported. Crain, a police officer with the city of Riverside, was mortally wounded on Feb.
Crain, 34, leaves his wife, a 4-year-old daughter and a son, They remain under police protection until Dorner is caught.
According to the department, Crain loved attending dance recitals with his daughter, coaching his son's baseball team and restoring his Chevy Nova. Dorner spent the next few years battling to overturn his dismissal, to little avail. In a judge upheld the LAPD's decision. An ex-girlfriend, Ariana Williams, with whom he had a relationship five years before his rampage, told CNN she left a warning on a website called dontdatehimgirl.
As his rage at his mistreatment intensified, he grew ever more isolated, withdrawing from his friends. Usera says he had no contact with him after The manifesto offers an insight into Dorner's state of mind as his chances of vindication grew ever more remote. In it, he claimed he had lost his relationship with his mother and his sister and was suffering from "severe depression".
He insisted he had been victimised by the LAPD for challenging a culture of lies, racism and excessive use of force. The abiding impression left by the document is of a well-informed, but disturbed mind. Thomas Jefferson and DH Lawrence were quoted in his defence. In some detail, he expounded upon his tastes in popular culture as well as his views on society and politics. He affirmed his support for a range of liberal and progressive causes including gay marriage, the right of women to serve in combat and - incongruously - gun control, including a ban on assault weapons.
Take Five by Dave Brubeck was declared "the greatest piece of music ever, period". These passages may have appeared ludicrous, but by the time Dorner posted them on the internet, no-one was laughing. The killing spree had begun. The first victims, Monica Quan, 28, and Keith Lawrence, 27, were found shot dead in the parking lot of their apartment building in Irvine, California on 3 February.
They had only recently announced their engagement. Neither served with the LAPD. But Quan's father Randall was a former captain in the force. He had represented Dorner at his disciplinary hearing, though inadequately, Dorner believed. In Dorner's worldview, this made the couple a legitimate target. After the manifesto surfaced, authorities guarded some 50 families, several of them belonging to former police department colleagues, against whom Dorner had pledged vengeance in the manifesto.
Four days after the Irvine shootings, two officers assigned to protect an individual named in Dorner's document were fired upon, injuring one of them.
Shortly afterwards, two police officers in Riverside were ambushed as they waited at a red light. One of them, year-old Michael Cain, a father of two, was killed and the other was critically injured.
The manhunt intensified. It was shot through with bullet holes. After the discovery of the suspect's burned-out Nissan Titan truck, the search moved to the area of Big Bear Lake, a ski resort 80 miles km east of Los Angeles. Dorner had been hiding out in a condominium, able to watch the manhunt, until the couple who owned it entered. He tied them up, stole their car and fled, but was eventually pursued to a cabin, where he made his last stand. In his manifesto, he had insisted he wanted only to inflict revenge on law enforcement officers and their families, and, true to his perverse sense of integrity, he stuck to his word.
After a failed attempt to steal a boat in Point Loma on 7 February - presumably in a bid to head for Mexico - he let the owner live. And he spared the lives of the condominium owners, leaving them bound and gagged, though they were able to reach a mobile phone to raise the alarm.
The LAPD let out a collective sigh of relief after the charred body in the cabin was identified as Dorner's. It's possible the case will have reopened wounds dating back to the time of the Rodney King case, when the LAPD was widely regarded by the city's minority communities as institutionally racist. Under the leadership of Chief William Bratton - with whom Dorner had once been photographed - the LAPD had focused on dispelling such perceptions, launching drives to hire minority officers and insisting that prejudice among officers would not be tolerated.
Nonetheless, Charlie Beck, Bratton's replacement, felt compelled to announce during the manhunt that Dorner's firing would be re-examined. It was not enough to satisfy sections of the community whose mistrust of the police persisted. Some declared Dorner a hero, creating Facebook pages with titles like "Christopher Dorner for President". Asked by the BBC whether Dorner's claims would damage the relationship between the force and those it was meant to serve, an LAPD spokeswoman said Beck's decision to re-open the disciplinary case would ensure there was "no misunderstanding between the police and the community".
Connie Rice, an African-American civil rights lawyer who helped broker reforms of the force after the riots, warns that Dorner's rants should not be conflated with the legitimate grievances of a bygone age.
However, according to Renford Reese, professor of political science at California State Polytechnic University, the folk hero status bestowed by some on Dorner reflects a lingering mistrust, the root causes of which the authorities have yet to address. For this reason, he insists, it's not enough simply to dismiss Dorner as crazy. Stay Connected. Keep up with LAist Our top stories delivered weeknights. Share This Facebook Twitter. By Emma G. Published Feb 14, AM.
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