Body in Burned Cabin Still Waiting Identification
Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer
“We have reason to believe that it is him,” San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.
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The massive manhunt for 33-year-old Dorner ended Tuesday when word came that a man matching Dorner’s description tied up two people in a Big Bear Lake cabin, stole their car and fled, CBS reported.
Dorner, who allegedly stole the pickup truck at gunpoint after crashing the first car, rolled down a window and opened fire on the wardens, striking a warden’s truck more than a dozen times.
One of the wardens shot at the suspect as he rounded a curve in the road. It’s unclear if he hit him, but the stolen pickup careened off the road and crashed in a snow bank. Dorner then ran on foot to the cabin where he barricaded himself and got in a shootout with San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies and other officers who arrived.
Two deputies were shot, one fatally.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press under condition of anonymity that a SWAT team surrounded the cabin and used an armored vehicle to break out the cabin windows. The officers then pumped a gas into the cabin and blasted a message over a loudspeaker: “Surrender or come out.”
The armored vehicle then tore down each of the cabin’s four walls.
A single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, according to the official.