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BIG
BEAR, Calif. (AP) - The man believed to be fugitive ex-cop Christopher
Dorner never came out of a California mountain cabin, and a single shot
was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, a law
enforcement official told The Associated ...
Source: Suspect didn’t leave burning cabin
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February 12, 2013
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BIG BEAR, Calif. (AP) — The man believed to be fugitive ex-cop
Christopher Dorner never came out of a California mountain cabin, and a
single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, a
law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The law enforcement official requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
A fourth person — a deputy — died earlier in the latest confrontation
with America’s most-wanted man, which seemed to be coming to an end.
Officials were waiting for the fire to burn out before approaching the ruins to search for a body.
“We have reason to believe that it is him,” San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.
The cabin was on fire and smoke was coming from the structure in the
late afternoon after police surrounded it in the snow-covered woods of
Big Bear, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.
Bachman didn’t say how the fire started but noted there was gunfire
between the person in the cabin and law enforcement officers around the
home before the blaze began.
TV helicopters showed the fire burning freely with no apparent effort to extinguish it.
Authorities have focused their hunt for Christopher Dorner there
since they said he launched a campaign to exact revenge against the Los
Angeles Police Department for his firing.
Authorities say Dorner threatened to bring “warfare” to LAPD officers
and their families, spreading fear and setting off a search for him
across three states and Mexico.
“Enough is enough. It’s time for you to turn yourself in. It’s time
to stop the bloodshed,” LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said earlier in the day
at a news conference held outside police headquarters in Los Angeles, a
starkly different atmosphere than last week when officials briefed the
news media under tight security with Dorner on the loose.
If the man inside the cabin does prove to be Dorner, it will lower
tensions among the more than 40 targets police say he listed in an
online rant.
Until Tuesday, authorities didn’t know whether Dorner was still near Big Bear, where they found his burned-out pickup last week.
Around 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, deputies got a report of a stolen vehicle,
authorities said. The location was directly across the street from
where law enforcement set up their command post on Thursday and not far
from where Dorner’s burned-out pickup was abandoned.
The people whose vehicle was stolen described the suspect as looking
similar to Dorner. When authorities found the vehicle, the suspect ran
into the forest and barricaded himself inside the cabin.
The first exchange of gunfire occurred about 12:45 p.m.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement that
one of its officers traveling down Highway 38 recognized a man who fit
Dorner’s description traveling in the opposite direction.
The wildlife officer pursued the vehicle and there was a shooting in
which the wildlife vehicle was hit numerous times and the suspect
escaped on foot.
There was then a second exchange with San Bernardino County deputies,
two of whom were shot. One died and the other was expected to live
after undergoing surgery.
“We’re heartbroken,” Big Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte said of the
deputy’s death and the wounding of his colleague. “Words can’t express
how grateful we are for the sacrifice those men have made in defense of
the community and our thoughts and prayers are with them and their
families.”
Police say Dorner began his run on Feb. 6 after they connected the
slayings of a former police captain’s daughter and her fiance with an
angry Facebook rant they said he posted. Threats against the LAPD led
officials to assign officers to protect officers and their families.
Within hours of the release of photos of the 6-foot, 270-pounder
described as armed and “extremely dangerous,” police say, Dorner
unsuccessfully tried to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico and
then ambushed police in Riverside County, shooting three and killing
one.
Jumpy officers guarding one of the targets named in the rant in
Torrance on Thursday shot and injured two women delivering newspapers
because they mistook their pickup truck for Dorner’s.
Police found charred weapons and camping gear inside the truck in Big Bear.
Helicopters using heat-seeking technology searched the forest from
above while scores of officers, some using bloodhounds, scoured the
ground and checked hundreds of vacation cabins — many vacant this time
of year — in the area.Continued...
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