I thought I’d put up a quick post on this. Dorner broke into a cabin, tied up two women, and stole their car. One woman escaped and was able to call 911.
Police chased Dorner until he crashed the stolen car. He then engaged in a shootout with police and reportedly wounded two officers with an automatic weapon. He’s now holed up somewhere and police are searching for him. He has been on foot for close to an hour now.
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LA Times: Dorner gun battle: 2 officers shot, ‘deputies are everywhere’
Fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner allegedly shot and wounded at least two San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies during a shootout with authorities in the Big Bear area Tuesday afternoon, sources said.
Dozens of law enforcement officers were racing to the last reported scene of a gun battle near the 7 Oaks cabin area near Big Bear.
“There are deputies everywhere on the ground and on foot,” said Cindy Bachman, a San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman.
The shooting occurred after Dorner burglarized a home, tied up a couple and stole a white pickup truck, sources said. San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller confirmed deputies responded to a vehicle theft about 12:20 p.m., and the resident who reported the theft said the suspect matched Dorner’s description.
The U.S. Forest Service confirms there was an exchange of gunfire between officers on foot and the suspect, in the Santa Ana River drainage, north of State Highway 38 and south of Big Bear Valley. At least one officer of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife was involved, said John Miller, San Bernardino National Forest spokesman. That officer is not believed to be injured.
Dorner’s status was not immediately known as the gunfight continued.
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Medivac helicopter on the way to take two injured officers to the hospital. The two women do not need treatment.
Everyone in the world must be on the internet. I can’t get on a lot of the articles and can’t save photos of Dorner.
I lost the live feed now.
We were talking about the toxic sink hole the other day, it got bigger again …
The 8.6-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish got a little larger on Tuesday.
http://theadvocate.com/home/5168999-125/assumption-parish-sinkhole-gets-bigger
and of course our AWOL governor is no where to be found.
Oh no! That is scary.
They don’t seem to know where Dorner is. He could be on foot somewhere up high or in another cabin. Most cabins there are empty apparently.
It looks like a wild area.
The suspect is barricaded in a cabin. Two officers have been taken to local hospitals. Severity of injuries unknown. No communication has taken place with suspect and no info on whether anyone is in the cabin with Dorner.
CNN: a “bunker-busting unit” is on the way. Dorner drove 27 miles before he crashed the car.
Dorner surrounded by police in cabin.
The two wounded men were taken to a trauma center, so they must be in pretty bad shape.
I’m watching cnn…………..they got one hell of a posse….I don’t see a way out of this, I’m damn sure they are going to “shoot to kill”.
I’m sure they’ll kill him if they can. They don’t want him to go to trial and talk about how racist the LAPD is.
Agree bb.
A local CBS reporter was caught in the middle of the firefight.
“Hundreds of rounds” fired during gun battle.
LAPD says they still can’t confirm for sure that this is Dorner. But why would the guy be shooting at them otherwise?
Who knows? Maybe they interrupted some kind of drug deal?
He was in a car and had taken hostages in a cabin. The two women identified him as looking like Dorner.
cabin is in flames
If I were the San Bernadino County sheriff, I wouldn’t let the LAPD anywhere close to that cabin.
lol
Hagel’s nomination approved by the committee.
From Twitter: LA reporter says SWAT killed Dorner–not yet confirmed.
They weren’t going to let him live. Hope that the people that owned the cabin didn’t have anything good up there. You had to know they’d completely destroy the scene too.
It could have been evidence, thus it’s gone.