As I write this , he is surrounded by police and in a cabin....A shootout and standoff began after police received a report around 12:22 p.m. that someone fitting Dorner’s description had stolen a car from a home near the ski resort area of Big Bear, police said.
A ground and air search ensued, and authorities located the pickup on Highway 38.
A spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game said one of its wardens was the “very first person to spot Mr. Dorner … They both got out of the vehicles and exchanged gunfire.”
The warden was not hurt and Christopher Dorner, who was already wanted for three slayings linked to a revenge-fueled rampage, was not captured, agency spokesman Andrew Hughan told NBC LosAngeles.com.
“The suspect fled into the forest and barricaded himself inside a cabin,” said a statement from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s office.
“A short time later there was an exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and the suspect ... Two law enforcement officers are being airlifted to a local hospital with unknown injuries.”
The wounded officers were taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center. Law enforcement officials confirmed one died.
Meanwhile the suspect – identified as Christopher Dorner by high-ranking LAPD sources – remained holed up in the cabin with heavily armed cops surrounding the area.
Hundreds of investigators have spent a week searching for Christopher Dorner – who is accused of killing a retired captain’s daughter and her fiancé on Feb. 3 and a police officer on Feb. 7 while allegedly carrying out a twisted revenge plot.
Christopher Dorner’s burned-out truck, a Nissan Titan, was found in Big Bear last week and scores of officers have been combing the mountain, going door-to-door to see if they could find signs of forced entry.
At an afternoon press conference, LAPD commander Andy Smith wouldn't confirm the ex-LAPD officer was holed-up in the cabin, but said he had a message for Dorner: “Enough is enough. It’s time to turn yourself in.”
“Everyone is very hopeful that this thing ends without any further bloodshed,” Smith said. “The best thing for him now would be to surrender…and he can face the criminal justice system.”
LAPD officers rushed to the scene to assist San Bernardino deputies and were also sifting through hundreds of clues about Dorner’s activities in recent days.
“Until this guy is in handcuffs … none of the people in our department are going to rest,” Smith said.
I don't wish to speculate too early...but I wonder if the LAPD really wants to take him alive? I don't know..call it the old radical conspiracy theorist in me, but I feel as though this man was wounded psychologically by the LAPD and his claims in his manifesto last week of rampant racism in the department..
(No real shock or surprise there!) and his subsequent dismisal.
I wish he had gone about this in a different way, without killing innocents....I wish he wasn't surrounded by law enforcement who might say he is too dangerous to be taken alive, who have already labeled him a ''Domestic Terrorist" and who might kill him as soon as they get a clear shot...
I wish it didn't have to be this way...I for one would like to see him have his day in court and hear what he has to say....The conspiracy theorist in me is saying that the LAPD doesn't want his story told...
I wish they would prove me wrong...I'd love to be wrong on this one.
POST SCRIPT-
At 10;26 PM, It has been reported that Christopher Dorner's body was removed from a burning cabin...
He's dead....This is just the way I thought this was going to end!
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They are not gonna take him alive. No way. He is going to go out dead. No way he would want to face trial.
No cameras on scene with Dorner, you already know what's about to go down!!!
The cabin is on fire and they letting it burn..
This is such a sad situation because if Dorner doesn't come out while the this is televised he will be gunned down. And the tragedy on both sides of the fence is more people are being killed and more than likely the truth may never come out. And I know first hand there are dirty cops in Los Angeles and San Diego and every where and we must also remember that there are good cops out too. I've been arrested by both...May God take control of that situation...
Wow! The media propaganda machine IS IN FULL FORCE! There is an unbroken string of police "psychologists"---NOW--making the oft seen, yet necessary, typical assessments of the suspect having "delusions of grandeur", trauma from "very early in his life", his divorce--possibly impacting his "narcissistic" personality---and on, and on..all this coming from "psychiatrists" who have NOT had the means, nor ability---to make these TYPES of "evaluations" !
Meanwhile---during the biggest---news story of the day (and as they move in with armored vehicles), SWAT teams, etc....they have now created what THEY call....."The Kill Zone"---all FAR beyond the scope of TV cameras.... and ANY possibility of ANY type of "surrender"--on his part! Additionally---the table has been "set"--that he's just "bucking"--to go out in a "blaze of glory"--and "hails of gunfire"! So when the "inevitable" result is actualized----"it was what--HE wanted!
When was the LAST time--you saw the media RETREAT..from an active story of this nature?...Yeah----It was Waco....I believe! This whole story STINKS TO HEAVEN..(on so many levels)---as his clearly articulated arguments-----I just heard today__
Will be "discussed"---in the days, and weeks..to follow! Rather than NOW...with the understanding that he will "get his day in court"......It seems to be that his "trial", the judgment, and final "verdict'---has ALREADY been rendered!
THIS CASE WILL BE TAKEN NOTE OF BY *EVERYONE*---FOR SOME TIME TO COME......
They've cut the live feed, their be no way to accurately discern what transpires between now and what I sadly think will be his inevitable death........ Reminds of the last scene of that movie from the early 80s Ragtime
Good point,...they have set up---a "controlled" media environment--there will be NO errant, and over zealous media types capturing pulitzer prize materials---when they move in--to do what they wanna do.....
Everything---indicates that--they NEED to have this situation...RESOLVED (their way)...and not a continuance of the white hot glare of media scrutiny---on this!
But--listed CAREFULLY---to the "creating"--of his "psyche" profile---on TV..that'll be the key!
Their rationale is how can we execute him with the world watching? Kill the live tv feeds till will we blow him up.
With the cop killer Dorner holed up, I'm wondering if this is going to surpass OJ Simpson's Bronco ride in '94 in terms of media coverage. I have a feeling that the entire world is going to watch this guy get rolled out in a body bag...
This guy already his goodbyes on the internet days ago, he will never get his side of the story heard in this lifetime.....GODSPEED!
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