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Fugitive US cop probably killed self following standoff with police force
Police officers man a blockade near the entrance to the San Bernardino National Forest in southern California after Christopher Dorner engaged in a shootout with police forces.
A former US police officer wanted for killing four people, including two police officers, is suspected to have been killed by a self-inflicted gunshot after police attempted to remove the walls of the cabin where he had barricaded himself.
The development came late Tuesday afternoon, following a fierce gun exchange between the fugitive Los Angeles police officer, 33-year-old Christopher Dorner, and an army of law enforcement officers, who had surrounded the cabin in the snow-covered Big Bear Lake forested area in Western coastal state of California.
Two police officers were critically injured during the fire exchange, one of whom later died of his wounds.
Latest reports indicate that Dorner, who remained inside the cabin even after it was riddled with hundred of bullets with teargas cartridges hurled inside through its blasted-out windows, set the place on fire and most likely killed himself with a single gunshot as authorities deployed “a vehicle” to tear down the walls of the cabin.
However, The Los Angeles Times reports that as of Tuesday night there were still conflicting reports on whether a body was located inside the burned-out cabin. While some police sources told news outlets that a body was spotted in the rubble, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officials insisted that the cabin was still too hot to search for bodies.
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2013-02-13 05:16:36
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