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Updated at 3:02 a.m. ET: Authorities in Los Angeles have offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of a fired LA police officer sought in connection with a series of killings and threats against his former colleagues and their families.
The reward was announced even as investigators continued to comb the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, where Christopher Dorner's burned out truck was found on Feb. 7, and hundreds of officers patrolled the neighborhoods where people live who were threatened by Dorner in an online screed.
Every day that Dorner is loose, said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, is another day when the likelihood of an attack on police officers or their families increases.
"We are asking the public, 'Please help us to protect you,' " Beck said at a news conference. "Please help us to find Dorner before he is able to kill again."
Dorner is wanted in the slayings of three people and the ambush-style shooting of two others, all part of a revenge-style rampage that began last Sunday, when he allegedly shot the daughter of a police union lawyer and her fiancé in an Irvine parking garage.
The heart of the search continued to be the San Bernardino mountains where Dorner was last seen, Beck said on Sunday. Officers will also look for him near where some 50 LAPD families live who were threatened by the former policeman.
"You fish where the fish are," Beck said. "And Mr. Dorner has made his intentions very clear."
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Police locked down a home improvement store in the San Fernando Valley, more than a hundred miles away from Big Bear, after receiving a tip that someone resembling Dorner was seen in the store. Authorities searched car-to-car and cordoned off neighborhoods in Northridge, but the move was seen as mostly precautionary.
Also on Sunday, the Riverside Police Department released the name of one of Dorner's victims. Michael Crain, 34, was ambushed by a man police believe was Dorner on April 7, as he sat with his partner at a stoplight in his patrol car.
New surveillance video captures fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner the morning after his first two murders, NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
Crain, who was born in Anaheim, was an 11-year veteran of the Riverside police force. He leaves behind a wife and two small children.
A second reward, worth $100,000, could also be on the way, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich said Sunday.
Tony Bell said that Antonovich and fellow supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas planned to ask colleagues on the Board of Supervisors to approve that reward for information leading to Dorner's capture at their meeting on Tuesday.
News of the rewards came as the LAPD announced it would re-open its investigation into Dorner’s firing from the department in 2008.
In a 11,400 word manifesto published on line, the ex-officer blamed his killing spree on his termination, saying that he would only stop when his name was cleared.
Re-opening the investigation seems to have two purposes: to communicate to members of the public who have responded to Dorner’s complaints that the LAPD treated him unfairly, and to send a message to the ex-officer himself.
Los Angeles officials announce a one million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
The department "is not opening it because of the accusations or because of the musings of someone who is a multiple murderer now," Cmdr. Andrew Smith said Saturday. Chief Charlie Beck is "wants to ensure that the public knows that the Los Angeles Police Department is fair and transparent, " Smith said.
Witnesses will be re-interviewed and the investigation into Dorner's firing will get a "fresh set of eyes," Smith said. He also issued a plea for Dorner to come forward.
"He can turn himself in and he can be able to get his side of the story out," Smith said.
Deputies have been combing the ski resort area of Big Bear, where authorities found former LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner’s burned-out truck, since Thursday afternoon.
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Investigators found weapons inside the truck, suggesting Dorner may have abandoned the truck in an unplanned hurry.
Former LAPD Chief William Bratton told the "Today Show" on Saturday that evidence suggests Dorner's truck may have become stuck in the mud. Previously, it was speculated that the truck may have been intentionally set ablaze as a distraction.
Investigators on Saturday were also trying to determine whether the truck's axle was broken when they found it, or if it was fractured while being towed from the forestry road.
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, interviewed outside a prayer breakfast downtown, urged Dorner to turn himself in.
"We will find you," Villaraigosa said. "You’ve disgraced the public safety -- the police profession -- turn yourself in."
As the search in Big Bear was winding down for the night on Saturday, LAPD announced the department is reopening the case into Dorner's 2008 firing from the force.
In an 11,400-word document published online, Dorner laid out plans to kill law enforcement officers and their families, vowing to stop the attacks when LAPD "states the truth about my innocence."
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As far as "disgracing the public safety -- the police profession" is concerned, those "nervous" officers that fired on innocent people didn't do the profession any favors either.
absolutely agree with you!!
Killing the innocent family members isn't the answer.... that being said I do understand (not condone) why. after all this man represented you and was suppose to protect you from those unjust officers that wore a badge while smearing your good name and lying to cover up their own personal faults after you had put so much of your life on hold to protect your country and then to protect & serve your community.
So many corrupt officials that after they are done scamming our judicial system will surely enter politics to rob and lie to us some more. We understand how you feel and many of us wish we had your courage and commitment to carry out such a plan. Never the less many of us have families and too much to lose. I can only imagine the heartbreak of your mother or other family members. Many people do not understand the great service e you are doing by drawing a focus on the police enforcement department of this country. We have so many officers perpetuating the same crimes they imprison others for committing. Feeling that they are indeed "above the law".
I know it's not in your DNA to accept anything less that the declaration of your innocence in your dismissal case, but after that the killings will need to stop. You stated you wanted to clear your name.... it can only be cleared in your dismissal claim.... it cannot be cleared in the actions of which you have partaken lately. I understand that in times of need someone must rise up and stand for the weak, but you have taken the lives of he weak and will need to pay a debt for those crimes.
In closing I hope you don't feel that anyone you praised in your manifesto will come to your aide or support you. after all you mentioned one of the most vial killers of all OBAMA!!!! He alone has taken more innocent lives than you ever could in a lifetime. he is more proficient at killing with a pen than you or I ever will be with a rifle. God Speed Solider!!!
BraveGator
Why don't you make a DVD of your above message, and send it to Anderson Cooper? CNN can read it on air along with the one Dorner sent
Folks they are running scared. I think Feinstein should ban their AR's, so they can protect themselves like she wants citizens to do, without. Of course she should also lose her 24/7 armed security. Wonder how many more officers he will kill before committing suicide.
I just hope someone wipes that stupid grin off of that stupid face soon.
They should recruit DOG The Bounty Hunter on this one! Nice guy.....I think he would give himself up! Other than that, this one will end badly!!
He looks like OJ
He looks like Robert Downey Jr with make-up.
He looks like Yogi Bear
He's not going to commit suicide. He's not the type. Count on it..
No, but if he goes down, he'll take YOU and everybody down with him. Count on that.
@ Johnny
Should I be scared? REALLY? Anyone with a badge should be scared....process that!
@vetW69,
Yeah, you should be scared once you ran out of bullets.
And that badge don't mean nothing when a 6 ft 270 lbs come running at you.
The bigger they are.....
reno19
the harder they fall" but watch where they fall.
veteranwife69
Anyone should be scared. Don't think that he won't take down anyone who gets in his way. He killed a former police captain's daughter; she was a beautiful young Asian woman who was a girl's basketball team coach. Exactly what was her crime?
If he kept focus on his targets, I might believe he was committed to his mission, but he hit some of his targets and some random, classic actions of a depressed suicidal. The thing about suicidals is they often take others with them before they self destruct. The wrongs he claims failed to warrant a death penalty, even if he was right about everything, and that is where he is guilty of lynching. People get too wrapped up with titles and credentials given to them by others that they forget how to define themselves as a person when those titles are removed. He's had time to strike or communicate and he has done neither. I wouldn't stop the search until he is found, but his silence points to suicide.
How did he escape from the zoo again?
The officers should have jumped in their vehicles, followed the vehicle that matched the suspect vehicle, then attempted to stop it, and go from there !!! UUUUHHHH don't just f'ing fire on it. The vehicle posed no threat other than driving by slow !!
Worst of all, 6 cops fired at the paper ladies and did relatively little damage to them, firing 30 rounds or so.
If it WAS Dorner, there'd be 6 more dead cops.
Piglet, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Tigger, Eeyore, Gopher and Cristopher Dorner are hiding in the woods singing their favorite song - THUS, LET US ALL SING ALONG - follow the bouncing balls.
Deep in the Hundred Acre Woods,
Where Christopher Dorner plays.
You'll find the enchanted neighborhood,
of Christopher's childhood days.
A donkey named Eeyore is his friend.
And Kanga and Little Roo.
There's Rabbit and Piglet.
And there's Owl.
But most of all Winnie the Pooh!
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh,
A tubby, little cubby all stuffed with fluff.
He's Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh,
A willy, really, silly old bear.
Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh,
A tubby, little cubby, all stuffed with fluff.
He's Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh.
A willy, really silly old bear.
AND THEy ALL HAVE A LITTLE ARSENAL TUCKED AWAY IN THAT HONEY POT SO BE very verY veRY vERY VERY careful.
Hey dude,, turn yourself in to DR Phill or Kim K,, ,, and bring your gun,
How do you mistake two women for one 270lb man? The one woman was shot in the back, which means she was out of the truck?
trigger happy cowboys running around shooting at shadows
Veteran - have you seen the picture of the truck - I counted 47 bullet holes just from the far off picture - bullet grouping behind diver and passenger window and bullet grouping behind driver and passengers seats thru (sp) the cab.
It was differently attempted murder
of course we need to get this man not only for what he has done but also for what he might yet do. The only thing is...... there are thousands of killers running around on the streets right now, but look, just because one targets cops it seems like there is no end to what they use to catch him. I bet if he was just some man who killed some random targets and was on the loose they would in now way spend the great volumes on money and man power to catch him. Cops and government workers for that matter hold themselves of higher value then the rest of us.
Forget about this guy, they are ready to declare Martial law!!!
thousands will be murdered!!!!
HIde ! Hide !
Get under the desk now !
Bring IT!! to all the unemployed, under-employed, dejected people in LA and surrounding counties here is your Chance!!! No worries, you will be a-okay when you tell Dorner you are stepping aside to call 911. Always there to protect!!!! crack-heads.
I am totally sickened by this man's actions. He should be captured and punished to the full extent of the law. If he was killed in some gun battle so be it. Now saying that I even more disgusted with the way the police have been handling their search of vehicles, homes and even more the shooting of innocent citizens. This gives GREAT credibility to what started all of this crap in the first place. I am amazed at the national media's lack of attention and press coverage of these violations of the rights of the citizens of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! Not to minimize the seriousness of what this man has done or threat he has imposed of law enforcement but It is evident that the law enforcement of LA has a cowboy rambo style with great disregard of the constitution. My heart goes out to all the officer's who put their lives on the line for us every day. But there are laws, rules and The Constitution that governs their actions and their total disregard of those laws re-enforces and give credibility to those who are anti-government and scares the hell out of the rest of us who watch in disbelief. Should we TRUST our law enforcement agencies when it really comes down to it? The LAPD is making disbelievers out of a lot of honest law abiding citizens. Their actions are doing more harm than what this derange ex-cop could have ever done. The government had better stand-up and show the citizens of the US that this kind of law enforcement will not be tolerated. I have to abide by the law regardless, why do they get to circumvent it at their will? Regardless of their threat we have rights! Simple as that. I worry about my country everyday now with all our the different rights being trampled on. God bless the United States of America and God please look after of citizens of this great nation including our police force. Thank you for listening.
This fatso Neanderthal is soooooo proud of himself. A lousy lieutenant who posses with weapons, etc., to build his already inflated ego. Anyone can shoot a woman and her daughter or ambush cops in their car, even this moron. He talks a tough game, but there are many authentic, lethally trained people out there who can squash this fat bug without a fight. It's his turn to be ambushed!
I hear the Florida amateur python hunters are in full migration westward.
Bring IT!! to all the unemployed, under-employed, dejected people in LA and surrounding counties here is your Chance!!! No worries, you will be a-okay when you tell Dorner you are stepping aside to call 911. Always there to protect!!!! crack-heads.
If there is no activity of his credit/bank card, and if there is no spotting of his being, he is either staying put or being out of CA, with limited cash.
Leave it to Villaraigosa to say something stupid that will just aggravate the situation. The city of Los Angeles deserves a mayor with more class.
YEAH...I read that comment he made also !!!! TELL US Mr. Mayor, Who the H311 is "WE" ?
Are you trying to say YOU are putting on your Combat Boots and heading to the Trenches ?
I think not........ You'll just sit there in your Office, with your Feet on the Desk playing Mayor of LA.
A typical Politician, taking credit for something you have NOTHING TO DO WITH.
Yes, and if the police finds you first, you will be shot and killed too, so they can collect!
100,000 ???? BbbbbWwwwwHhahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Wow...........Times must be tough in Cali, if all you can offer is
100 grand. reward.
I guess YOU DON'T keep up with current affairs..........California is Bankrupt !
That's all LA has in their Piggy Bank, and if that's all you got, then that's allot
to give your LAST DIME.
NOW SEE WHAT'S HAPPENED.............. LA must of had a talk with Obama, and was informed on just how to create a Deficit for the State, just as the White House has done for the Country. Doesn't matter if they have the Funds for the Reward or not, Just promise what you want, to get what you want. Remember, PAYING is a whole other issue.
This is why gun control is so important...Only the police and military should have guns......Oops something is wrong here.
I can see only one solution, we need to ban firing cops. Here is the reason the citizen needs an AR15.
We are seeing a freaking nutcase running around , hiding from the cops, after murdering people.
THis has about as much bearing on the second amendment as your post does to intelligence.
Jane Wilson
Yawn.
I bet you hes in Tijuana lol he was seen in National City last which is 10 minutes away from the Mexican border. I'll take up this challenge.