Updated at 9:45 p.m. Friday
Since allegedly shooting at two Riverside Police officers, killing one early Thursday morning, triple-murder suspect Christopher Jordan Dorner has managed to evade a massive manhunt spanning several states.
The search for Dorner, a disgruntled former LAPD officer, spread Friday from California and Nevada to Arizona and northern Mexico and back to Dorner’s home in Orange County, where authorities raided his mother’s La Palma residence.
The fired LAPD officer, 33, is suspected in the revenge slayings of an engaged couple in Irvine in addition to Thursday's ambush murder of the Riverside police officer. Even as officers across the region attempt to hunt Dorner down, police in Riverside are preparing to bury one of their own.
Funeral services for the officer, an 11-year veteran whose name is being withheld at the request of Riverside Police Department Chief Sergio Diaz, are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Grove Community Church, 19900 Grove Community Drive. The entire Riverside police force will turn out for Wednesday's funeral, complete with an honor guard procession that will bear the 34-year-old patrolman's casket to Riverside National Cemetery for internment.
In the meantime, the manhunt continues. As snow fell Friday in Big Bear, more than 100 police and canines combed the mountainous area where Dorner's truck was found ablaze Thursday.
According to San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon, deputies and police officers used specialized equipment such as armored personnel carriers equipped with chains to help them navigate the snow-covered roadways.
Sheriff's officials said the search would continue until Dorner was located or evidence was found indicating he was no longer in the Big Bear area. Officials said some tracks were found during the search effort, but investigators determined they did not belong to Dorner.
Meanwhile, authorities searched Dorner's mother's home in La Palma, where Dorner was believed to have either been staying or recently visited prior to the outbreak of violence. According to the Irvine Police Department, investigators examined computer records and emerged with bags of evidence. Dorner’s mother and sister were home during the search, which lasted several hours.
False Sightings
Elsewhere, police chased various false leads:
- Around 8:45 a.m. in downtown Los Angeles, sheriff's officials locked down the Twin Towers jail after a civilian employee said she saw "an individual outside that resembled suspect Dorner," officials said. KABC said Dorner's ex-wife works at the jail. The lockdown was lifted shortly after 2 p.m.
- The California Highway Patrol issued an alert Friday that Dorner could be driving a white Lexus last seen near Barstow, but that report was later discredited.
- A sighting in San Diego County late Thursday was branded a hoax and authorities may prosecute the caller.
- In Torrance on Thursday, police fired a hail of bullets at two female newspaper carriers driving a truck similar to Dorner's, wounding both. "It looked like the police had the goal of administering street justice and, in so doing, didn't take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women don't look like a large black man," attorney Glen T. Jonas, who is representing the victims, told the Los Angeles Times.
The Manhunt Spreads
In Las Vegas, FBI agents searched a home Dorner owns, while the search expanded to Arizona and northern Mexico, according to reports.
The LAPD has been on full tactical alert, which extends officers' shifts, almost continuously since the Thursday morning shootings in Riverside County of three police, one of whom died.
Numerous officers had been standing guard outside LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles since Dorner was identified Wednesday night as the suspect in the slayings of 28-year-old Monica Quan and her finance, 27-year-old Keith Lawrence, who were found shot to death Sunday in a parked car at their Irvine home.
Quan was the daughter of a retired LAPD captain who represented Dorner at the LAPD hearing that led to his firing, and the killings were an act of revenge outlined in a lengthy manifesto that discussed everything from police racism to Charlie Sheen and Michelle Obama, according to police.
Dorner is 6 feet tall and weighs 270 pounds. Anyone encountering him should consider him armed and extremely dangerous and should not approach but instead call 911 immediately, police said. A tip line has been established at 949-724-7192.
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Long Beach Woman Reportedly Was Married to Dorner
A False Alarm in San Diego
Engaged Couple Found Shot to Death in Irvine
-City News Service contributed to this report
Baloney. Now they have "Beds for Feds" at the County jail that added about 1000 new illegal migrant bodies to the jail system. Plus, with AB 109 state prisoners are being transferred to the County jails. More inmates require more overtime hours. So your claim is unbelieveable and you have no proof to substantiate your claim, Zoe You have no proof that anything has changed. All you have is talk. I provided logic above that discounts your claim. And that 2007 pay grid for Deputy 1's says it all. That is the LOWEST pay grade at OCSD. The bottom of the barrel. Entry positions. And all make in excess of $100,000 in just salary and overtime. If you tack on the pension benefits and the medical - it adds an easy $50,000 to their total compensation. One Deputy 1 made over $196,000 in salary and overtime. And the knee slapper is that one only needs a GED diploma to get hired by OCSD. In fact, their former Acting Sheriff, Joanne Galinsky, who was appointed after Carona left had only a GED. So if all it takes is a GED to be the Acting Sheriff what relection would that have upon the rank and file? Wake up and snap out of your denial.
It's not just his manifesto. It's the FACTS in Dorner's termination case which are leaking out that tend to substantiate his manifesto claims. Catch up with the news! "Aside from that, I really hope you are not saying that what he is doing is alright with you." I've already made it clear that what Dorner did was reprehensible. I said that repeatedly in my comments. But my MAIN point that you either deny or ignore is that LAPD created this monster and caused havoc in our society. You cannot point to any heinous criminal who has done what he has done in So. Cal., namely killed an innocent woman and her fiancee in retaliation for percieved harm caused by a cop. Yet Dorner did it and he WAS A COP, who was a product of LAPD. OWN IT, MAN!!! "Your arguments, however, seem to lump all police into one general category to make it convenient for you to say the things you do" My point is that there is a code of silence within the police force where seemingly good cops cover for bad cops. This is common knowledge. No secret. Everyone knows that secret. So stop being coy. And when good cops cover for bad cops it makes the good cops bad. And this is widepread throughout LE. No secret. "You know, you can always go live somewhere that has a police force that has no corruption." Why should I have to move to avoid corrupted cops? What a stupid thing to say. It's incumbent upon the corrupted cops to change!
I bet some german citizens said the same thing about the Stasi back in the day too. " I will respect the idea that some at LAPD overreacted, and many will pay a price with administrative investigations." HAH! What a ridiculous thing to say. You mean a reprimand in the file for shooting an innocent 71 year old woman in the back twice? All 7 (or whoever fired their weapons) should be fired immediately and criminal charges against the one who shot the woman in the back. "But, to slam dunk an entire group of individuals who go to work and put their lives on the line every day, is disgusting." No, what's disgusting is that cops shoot an innocent 71 year old woman in the back and that there isn't public outrage communicated by all cops. That's what's disgusting. You morality meter must be turned off today. But keep carrying their water. It's amusing. ;^)
From your comments under this topic you are obviously a shoe-shine boy for the cops. And IMO it's disgusting. It's disingenous and waterboy attitudes like your that are contributing to the destruction of our nation, IMO.
You have failed to debate even one of my specific points. Instead you attack me. That tells me you are a coward, my friend. Wear it like a badge. heh. ;^)
Oh, and Dorner lost his top secret clearance as a result of LAPD's actions. That undoubtedly impacted his ability to function in his naval job. And it most likely had a bearing on his discharge. My guess is that he was rifted out due at least in part to LAPD's action against him. And that probably pushed him right over the edge. You're a cop, right??? You should be able to think through this stuff and analyze it too.
This guy is a Hunter, not a warrior.
Even the court system could not unequivocally state that Dorner's case and his accusations that he was being targeted because he fingered his training officer in an 'assault under the color of authority' did not have merit. It only said that he could not meet the burden of proof. That's all. Go read it for yourself. The court didn't dismiss what he was saying as fabrication at all. Most people move on. Dorner didn't. That's the difference here.
" Like I said, you have never been in a situation where you needed a gun, unless it was in school when the bigger kids beat you around a bit." You have no idea what my experiences have been. You don't have a clue. You are talking out the hole in your hind end. "The policemen were carrying guns when they were shot and they didn't help them. But the police that shot up those two ladies in the trucks were well armed and the shot innocent victims. Thats why I don't want gun happy fools running around with weapons." Citizens who are armed have a MUCH HIGHER CHANCE OF PROTECTING THEMSELVES AND THEIR SURVIVAL when attacked by a criminal than citizens without guns. And that is indisputable. And when citizens are disarmed by the government it puts them at a MUCH HIGHER PERSONAL SAFETY RISK. Any moron understands the logic in those statements. If you can't understand it there is nothing I can do for you.
Like most of us, he wants to live another day. And you can't blame him for that.
Maybe you're Dorner testing me, to see if you can find out what we know?, what were doing??. Let us all voice our opinions on here, if it makes you angry, get offline, and call 911, and tell them you need help in relating to online comments!. "You" can't make people change their way of thinking Mr Jack!. Now go pick on someone else that you feel has wronged you!.
I think you are really ignorant to the fact that Dorner does not need to commit more Murders to be recognized the way he wants to be recognized, and hurt innocent people, that he thinks is guilty in wronging him, and what about the innocent children that a murdered officer leaves behind?, should the children have to pay for what murders Dorner has done?..NO!.