The dramatic manhunt for a fugitive ex-LAPD cop who killed at least four people apparently ended when the cabin he holed up in went up in flames, with ammunition exploding in the inferno and smoke billowing up into the mountain air.
Christopher Dorner, who hours earlier had killed one San Bernadino sheriff’s deputy and wounded another before barricading himself in the cabin, in the San Bernadino mountains, was believed to be inside. Dorner, who vowed not to be taken alive, had been surrounded inside the cabin since early Tuesday afternoon. It was not clear who set the fire in the rural Big Bear community where Dorner apparently has been hiding since sometime last week.
It was a stunning end to a saga that gripped the nation, and had the nation’s third-largest police department on tenterhooks for a week. Dorner, a former Navy man and highly trained marksman, had vowed revenge on the department he believed had wronged him – designating specific targets for death. As flames devoured the cabin, police stood by, confident that there was no escape for Dorner, and no way he could survive the blaze – assuming he had not already taken his own life.
San Bernardino Sheriff Spokesperson Cindy Bachman told reporters that they will not enter the structure until it is safe to do so.
Law enforcement sources said sometime within the last few days, Dorner broke into an cabin off Route 38, on the mountain resort area where days ago his truck was found burning. Two women were held there until Tuesday morning, when Dorner left in a white pickup believed to belong to one of the women, who he left bound inside. One managed to escape and call authorities around 12:50 p.m. local time.
Sometime later, fish and wildlife officers spotted the stolen pickup, which they were looking for, and tried to stop it near Big Bear Lake, authorities said. The driver, believed to have been Dorner, fled on foot, exchanging gunfire, sources told Fox News. Hours later, police had Dorner cornered in another cabin, exchanging gunfire with the suspect. It was there that his rampage would end.
As the forces surrounding the cabin mounted, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department shut down Highway 38 to create a choke point, sources told Fox News. Four area schools were on lockdown.
The police also asked the media to stop tweeting events in real time and showing live aerial shots of the cabin, theorizing Dorner could be monitoring events on television. A CBS correspondent briefly found himself in the crossfire as he broadcasted from the event, before police ordered him out of the danger zone.
The shootout came after a day of searching and speculation, with authorities continuing their door-to-door search in the rural Southern California community, even as sources guessed Dorner, 33, may have made it over the border and into Mexico.
The hulking suspect, who claimed in a rambling manifesto posted online that he was booted from his job unfairly after official determined he falsely accused his partner of assaulting a suspect, vowed to being “asymmetrical warfare” to the department, using his police and military training, and named 40 “targets.” Police have guarded the homes of the targets even as they conducted what may be the biggest manhunt in state history.
Dorner was suspected of gunning down Monica Quan, 28, and her fiancé Keith Lawrence, 27, on Feb.3 in a parking garage in Irvine, Calif. Quan’s father, Randall Quan, represented Dorner at the hearing in which he lost his job in 2009. On Monday, a day after Quan and Lawrence were found dead, some of Dorner’s belongings were discovered in a trash bin near San Diego. Dorner’s bizarre manifesto surfaced on Facebook, implicating him in the murders and announcing his twisted plan for revenge against his former employer. Police hunted Dorner in San Diego, where last Wednesday night a man matching his description tried unsuccessfully to steal a boat from a marina there.
In the wee hours on Thursday, some 100 miles north in Riverside County, two LAPD officers assigned to protect a person named in Dorner’s manifesto chased a vehicle they believed was Dorner’s. During an ensuing shootout, one officer was grazed in the forehead. Moments later, a gunman believed to be Dorner ambushed two Riverside cops at a traffic light, killing 11-year veteran Police Officer Michael Crain and critically injuring the other.
Dorner’s burning truck turned up 50 miles west of Riverside later that morning. Although statewide alerts were issued in California and Nevada, and authorities were watching the border, the most intense phase of the search has not left Big Bear since the truck was found on a local forest road.
In recent days, hundreds of police officers scoured the mountain, searching cabins door-to-door. While the search on Big Bear was scaled back on Monday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department continued the hunt, likely within a stone’s throw of their violent quarry.
Meanwhile, an associate of Dorner was being tracked by investigators, according to court records that suggest Dorner may have received help as he eluded a massive law enforcement dragnet. A criminal complaint filed in federal court raises the possibility that Dorner may have been assisted by an associate identified as “J.Y.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Hey, we knew Dorner was going to go out in a blaze of glory! We just didn’t count on it being quite like this.Well we wont be seeing his bullet riddled body or probably his burnt carcass.
Well done guys, this was worthy of an OSCAR!
well said rhumstruck. hehehe. I wonder what movie paid all of these movie making ideas/scripts with these trageties all of a sudden. Ya know. They are realy looking hard forn a new idea/ base for a new movie. I stilll think that this whole thing with Dorner is a insult to the intellegence – if ya know what I mean. And people are actly buying into this. WOW.
I just watched a live thing on msm – CBS – and they just said that they say some fresh foot prints that were going to the horses. That tells me that the govt./police murdered another innocent individual. They have let this building burn down to ashes. They will never say who it was who burned to death in this house. This could have been a parolee from prison or some street person or hell, maybe some mule drug runner for the war on drugs. Sure, with a fire that burns that hot, – ya know – will never have any reliable DNA evidence to say who burned up in that house/cabin
WHAT YOU DONT TRUST OBAMO GOV? WATCH HIS SPEECH TO SEE AN SMELL ALL THE BULLSHIT,NEITHER DO I
Trust HOREDOG?, there is so little trust left that every one has to be parinoid of trust!! I believe in HONESTY and HONOR and when we all got honor then we all got trust. This is just me and I am honest and with honesty comes honor, and with honesty and honor combined is when you can have trust. This govt. here in america is neither honest or honorable so – by that route – they have abused all of our trust therefore they are not honest and they have no honor, so there for they are not trustworthy…………….P.S. HAHA I haven`t wasted my time with Obama. Perhaps I should though eh HOREDOG? – NOPE, I don`t think so.
My Fellow Patriots:
We just talked about this on Henry’s show a few hours ago.
We predicted that they would burn the cabin to ashes in order to destroy the evidence.
Now, there is no way to confirm the dead, other than the few remianing teeth, which the FBI will of course confirm as being Dorners.
All to predictable.
Next Gov’t Staged Operation please…..
JD – US Marines – This is not the end of these false-flags,.. they are just getting started!
Remember The Objective – Disarm ALL Americans,.. before WW3 or the Financial Sytem collapse!
Correct. I agree.
Even some of the worst writers in Hollywood can come up with better stuff that this garbage.
He was bin Laden-ed
Not quite.
They had to kill him twice.
Another planned “spontaneous” event. The communist party found themselves a very “useful idiot” for BRA amerika with Dorner ; “Rogue cop” so appalled with police corruption. I know Dorner is appalled by police corruption ’cause he went around causing mayhem and death. Some upstanding cop.
The word “manifesto” is a communist word — it’s communist jargon. Anyone who has a “manifesto” : Know that such a person is a communist.
There’re plenty of leftist organizations who would have been very glad to have taken Dorner’s case into the courts — the court system is very leftist — the court system bends over backwards to award ” disgruntled” blacks.
But no. Honorable and up-standing cop goes out and kills people.
And of course, we’ll never know for sure if Dorner really died in the cabin. How convenient the end turned out to be. I don’t buy any of it.
Dorner is on the payroll of the commies who run the show in Washington. It’s another psych-ops on the American citizenry by the mossad/cia [ same thing ]. Dorner is in a safe-house with his accomplices now.
Just in time for the State of the Union address. By the way, is anyone watching Obama talking the biggest piece of shit crap of lies that you have ever seen? Endorsing Fienstein and gun control and so on and saying that “an overwhelming support universal background checks.” HAHAAHAHAAHAAHA!!! What delusional world is he living in??
OMG!!! The dictator speaks!!! “They deserve a vote” as the whole house cheers in a thunderous applause and standing ovation and the MSM shows the people and all of the victims of the incidents and their families who just happen to be there conveniently for everything during his speech. Psychological warfare at its finest. WHY THE HELL IS THIS GUY STILL ALIVE!!!????
OMG!! I can’t watch the SOTU address anymore. From the time I wrote this to the time I finished it (5 minutes), I decided to shut it off. I’ve never heard or seen such a grotesque display and betrayal of America, as if a foreign government is cheering that they have taken over and conquered our nation.
And of course, you’ll never see the body. He just happened to simply be burnt to a crisp in the woods in a cabin. The End of yet another made for TV movie. Don’t you just love Hollywood. Oh wait! This was suppose to be real? My bad.
Our government and the elite have gotten to be so predictable that I don’t even think they care anymore. The same script for every false flag. YAWN!!! When is the restoration going to begin?
was it Winston Churchill who said something like, “someday you won’t be able to hide or distract yourself anymore, and you will fight. not because it’s the right thing to do, but because you will have no other choice, but to fight…and you will die and have no chance for success because you’ve waited too long, but you will fight because by that time it will be the only thing you can do.”
i guess the only positive thing that can be said about our situation is what William Wallace was saying to his boys before fighting the English…”you can fight with me today and be free for a little while just before your death, or you can run away and someday while you’re laying in your beds dying as slaves you’ll wish you could have this chance again to fight”(something like that)
it ain’t even a question of honor anymore…
lots of us will die, but ask yourself, “wtf else can we really do?”
“Fugitive ex-cop believed dead, as cabin stronghold goes up in flames
The dramatic manhunt for a fugitive ex-LAPD cop who killed at least four people apparently ended when the cabin he holed up in went up in flames, with ammunition exploding in the inferno and smoke billowing up into the mountain air. Dorner, who vowed not to be taken alive, had been surrounded inside the cabin since early Tuesday afternoon. It was not clear who set the fire in the rural Big Bear community where Dorner apparently has been hiding since sometime last week.
It was a stunning end to a saga that gripped the nation, and had the nation’s third-largest police department on tenterhooks for a week.”
Ahhh….yes….a “stunning end to a saga”. It was “not clear” who or how the fire started, of course (Note to Sheeple: Hint-hint: It was THE GOVERNMENT and their false flag tactics), or if he is actually dead, since he is “believed” to be dead and let’s face it, we should all just take the MSM’s word for it since they have done such a great job telling us the truth about Sandy Hoax, the Syrian Rebels, the Aurora Shooting, the Oregon Mall shooting, 9/11, Fast and Furious, the Benghazi incident and so much more.
What a crock of shit! A “B” rated movie would have provided a better script and better acting than this. It’s ridiculous!
You are right NC. A B rated movie would have had a better plot/script than this.
WACO ??? They used tear-gas and the cabin like that completely burned down — kept news choppers away so they cannot film what is hapening — kept on-the ground news folks away so they could not film — also strange is his burning truck had two Ar-15’s — Why would he leave his arms in the truck — two ladys alleged the man who held them was Dornor — more questions than answers !!!!