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Law Enforcement Officer Killed in Big Bear Shootout
by Ted Chen
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A law enforcement officer involved in a shootout in Big Bear Tuesday afternoon has died, officials told NBC4 News. It was immediately clear to which agency the officer belonged.
Earlier reports said two deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department were struck in a gunfight near Big Bear reportedly with fugitive former police officer and suspected murderer Christopher Dorner, law enforcement officials tell NBC4 News.
Both deputies were airlifted to a hospital in unknown condition, officials said. It not immediately known if the officer who died was one of the two sheriff's deputies.
One of the deputies was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, according to a spokesperson for Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. The other injured deputy may have been taken there, as well.
Initial reports suggested the second officer may have been taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where there was a massive police presence. But by 3 p.m., most of the law enforcement officers standing guard outside the emergency room at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center had left.
California Fish and Game officials first spotted a man who looks like Dorner shortly after 12 p.m. near Seven Oaks Mountain Cabins in the unincorporated community of Angelus Oaks (map), about five miles southwest from the town of Big Bear on the other side of mountain ski resorts.
Fish and Game officials exchanged gunfire with the man, but the officers were not hit. The two sheriff's deputies were struck in a separate, later gun battle, officials said.
The manhunt for Dorner turned to Big Bear last Thursday when Dorner’s burned-out pickup truck was found on a forestry road.
The deputies were struck exchanging gunfire with a man who matches the description of the former LAPD officer suspected of killing an LAPD captain’s daughter, her fiancé, and a Riverside police officer.
Investigators believe the slayings are connected to an angry manifesto published on Dorner’s Facebook page that laid out plans to kill law enforcement officers and their families.
Dorner used the manifesto to recount his firing and declare his innocence. He was fired from the LAPD in 2008, after reporting another officer for alleged brutality – an accusation that investigators later said was false.
In the 11,400-word document, Dorner said the violence will end when the department clears his name.
"The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period," he wrote in the document published on his Facebook page. "There is no negotiation."
On Saturday, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said the department will reopen the case into Dorner’s termination from the force.
Smith repeatedly said the move to reopen the case was not to appease Dorner. Still, the tone of Saturday's announcement was starkly different from Beck's comments earlier last week in which he dismissed Dorner's manifesto as "the rantings of a killer."
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Law Enforcement Officer Killed in Big Bear Shootout
by Ted Chen
advertisement
A law enforcement officer involved in a shootout in Big Bear Tuesday afternoon has died, officials told NBC4 News. It was immediately clear to which agency the officer belonged.
Earlier reports said two deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department were struck in a gunfight near Big Bear reportedly with fugitive former police officer and suspected murderer Christopher Dorner, law enforcement officials tell NBC4 News.
Both deputies were airlifted to a hospital in unknown condition, officials said. It not immediately known if the officer who died was one of the two sheriff's deputies.
One of the deputies was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, according to a spokesperson for Arrowhead Regional Medical Center. The other injured deputy may have been taken there, as well.
Initial reports suggested the second officer may have been taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where there was a massive police presence. But by 3 p.m., most of the law enforcement officers standing guard outside the emergency room at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center had left.
California Fish and Game officials first spotted a man who looks like Dorner shortly after 12 p.m. near Seven Oaks Mountain Cabins in the unincorporated community of Angelus Oaks (map), about five miles southwest from the town of Big Bear on the other side of mountain ski resorts.
Fish and Game officials exchanged gunfire with the man, but the officers were not hit. The two sheriff's deputies were struck in a separate, later gun battle, officials said.
The manhunt for Dorner turned to Big Bear last Thursday when Dorner’s burned-out pickup truck was found on a forestry road.
The deputies were struck exchanging gunfire with a man who matches the description of the former LAPD officer suspected of killing an LAPD captain’s daughter, her fiancé, and a Riverside police officer.
Investigators believe the slayings are connected to an angry manifesto published on Dorner’s Facebook page that laid out plans to kill law enforcement officers and their families.
Dorner used the manifesto to recount his firing and declare his innocence. He was fired from the LAPD in 2008, after reporting another officer for alleged brutality – an accusation that investigators later said was false.
In the 11,400-word document, Dorner said the violence will end when the department clears his name.
"The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period," he wrote in the document published on his Facebook page. "There is no negotiation."
On Saturday, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said the department will reopen the case into Dorner’s termination from the force.
Smith repeatedly said the move to reopen the case was not to appease Dorner. Still, the tone of Saturday's announcement was starkly different from Beck's comments earlier last week in which he dismissed Dorner's manifesto as "the rantings of a killer."
Complete Revenge Plot Coverage: Special NBCLA.com Section | Timeline | Map | Dorner's Manifesto| Submit a Tip | Facebook| Twitter |Instagram | RSS | Text Alerts | Email Alerts
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