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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The training officer whose dispute with former Los Angeles police Officer Christopher Dorner led to his firing says it was her "long shot" tip that led police to suspect Dorner of killing an Irvine couple, setting off the deadly manhunt that would end with Dorner's suicide.

Dorner was fired in 2009 for making false allegations against Sgt. Teresa Evans.

Evans told the Los Angeles Times Thursday that police near San Diego called her Feb. 4, to say they had found some of Dorner's belongings, and his notebook included Evans' name. It was the day after the daughter of an ex-LAPD captain and her fiance were found dead.

Evans recalled that the ex-captain had once represented Dorner and called Irvine police with a hunch he might be involved. Dorner would soon be named the suspect.

KSBY News has learned a Lompoc police captain has a key connection to the termination case of Christopher Dorner.

Dorner was the fired Los Angeles police officer authorities said went on a deadly rampage to seek revenge and to clear his name. After police said Dorner killed four people, including two officers, he fatally shot himself during a shootout with officers in a cabin in San Bernardino County.

Don Deming was a LAPD sergeant in 2007 when Dorner came to him with claims he saw his training officer kick a handcuffed suspect.

According to court documents from Dorner's unsuccessful appeal of his termination, Deming testified Dorner "was visibly upset" when he told Deming about the alleged misconduct.

Dorner said, " Promise me you won't do anything." Deming replied, "No, Chris, I have to do something."

After Deming took a new job as a supervisor at the Lompoc Police Department, Dorner called to tell Deming he was being investigated for false statements. During the conversation, Dorner also told Deming, " No matter what happens, I just want you to know I never lied to you."

The LAPD internal affairs investigation later found Dorner had lied and he was charged with making false statements and was fired.

During Dorner's recent shooting spree, he released a manifesto ranting against the LAPD and vowing revenge. He also mentioned Captain Deming as someone who could verify Dorner was a good report writer.

Although Dorner did not include Deming on his "hit" list, precautions were taken to protect Deming and his family while Dorner was on the loose.

With the LAPD now reviewing the Dorner termination case, Captain Deming could be be called back to Los Angeles to give a statement about what Dorner told him in 2007 about the alleged incident with his training officer.

Captain Deming has declined to comment publicly at this time about his contact with Dorner while they worked together at the LAPD.

Two Los Angeles Police officers who were targets on Christopher Dorner's hit list spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday.

Emada and Phil Tingirides are married members of the L.A. Police Department.

They, along with their six children, were targets Dorner because Captain Phil Tingirides once recommended he be fired.

"Never, ever did I think somebody would go to this extent in their rage over the discipline that was handed to them," Captain Tingirides said.

But Dorner did.

The former LAPD officer went on a killing spree that left four dead before he was cornered and killed last week in a mountain cabin that burned to the ground near Big Bear Lake, California.

During the course of his rampage Dorner released a manifesto naming Tingirides and others as part of a racially biased department that had fired him unfairly.

The Tingirides were put under 24 hour protection in their home.

"There were many times we broke down, but we'd go to the garage and cry," said Sgt. Emada Tingirides.

Both said they read only parts of Dorner's manifesto and totally disagreed with his allegations of racism within the department.

Chief Charlie Beck, meanwhile, is still promising to investigate those claims.

"I don't, for a minute, discount the effect the manifesto had on the LAPD," Beck said.

This was also the first time beck has spoken since the standoff that ended with Dorner's death, which he said is still being investigated.

Authorities are also working to determine who's entitled to the $1 million in reward money for Dorner's capture.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dozens of protesters rallied outside Los Angeles police headquarters in support of Christopher Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer and suspected killer of four who died after a shootout and fire this week at a mountain cabin.

Protesters told the Los Angeles Times at the Saturday rally that they did not support Dorner's deadly methods, but objected to police corruption and brutality, and believed Dorner's claims of racism and unfair treatment by the department that he said led to the rampage.

Thirty-year-old protester Michael Nam held a sign with a flaming tombstone and the inscription "RIP Habeas Corpus." He and others said they were angered by the conduct of the manhunt that led to Dorner's death and injuries to innocent bystanders who were mistaken for him.

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities are applauding a cab driver for helping two Riverside police officers who were shot by Christopher Dorner in an ambush.

Karam Kaoud stopped his taxi at a red light when a gunman pulled up next to a police car and opened fire on Feb. 7, killing Michael Crain and wounding Andrew Tachias.

Kaoud tells the Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/WNTjR6) he ran to the police car after the gunman believed to be Dorner sped off. He said Crain was unconscious and Tachias couldn't move, so the officer asked him to push the radio button so he could call for help.

An ambulance rushed to the scene and took Tachias to the hospital.

Police Chief Sergio Diaz says that any delay in getting help could have been detrimental for Tachias.

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SACRAMENTO , Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers have honored a sheriff's deputy killed in a shootout with fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner.

During legislative sessions Friday, two San Bernardino County lawmakers described 35-year-old Jeremiah MacKay as a hero who will be missed.

Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks, which is near the Big Bear Lake community where the Dorner manhunt was focused, described MacKay as a happy and courageous man who was "always there to help anybody." Republican Sen. Bill Emmerson of Redlands called the detective "a dedicated public servant."

MacKay grew up in Lake Arrowhead, which also is near Big Bear, and served in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department for 15 years. He was hit several times during Tuesday's shootout.

MacKay leaves behind a wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and police Chief Charlie Beck say they hope someone can claim the $1 million reward offered for information leading to the capture of Christopher Dorner, the ex-cop and suspected quadruple killer who died after a mountain shootout this week.

But the mayor and chief said in a joint statement Thursday that more than 20 jurisdictions and entities are involved, and any decision on the reward will have to go through all of them.

It's not clear who if anyone would qualify for the award that police believed was the largest in local history.

Possible candidates include a couple who came upon Dorner at the cabin where he'd been hiding, and a man whose truck Dorner stole as he fled before the final firefight.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Officials say burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner.

San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller said Thursday that the identification was made through Dorner's dental records.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Karen and Jim Reynolds say they came face to face with fugitive Christopher Dorner, not up on a snow-covered mountain trail, but inside their cabin-style condo.

During a 15-minute ordeal just a stone's throw from a command post authorities set up in the manhunt for the ex-Los Angeles police officer, the couple said, Dorner bound them and put pillowcases on their heads. At one point, he explained that he had been in their condo over the previous days.

"He said 'I don't have a problem with you, so I'm not going to hurt you,'" Jim Reynolds said. "I didn't believe him; I thought he was going to kill us."

Police have not commented on the Reynolds' account, but it renews questions about the thoroughness of a search for a man who authorities declared was extremely armed and dangerous as they hunted him across the Southwest and Mexico.

"They said they went door-to-door but then he's right there under their noses. Makes you wonder if the police even knew what they were doing," said Shannon Schroepfer, who lives near the Reynolds' cabin. "He was probably sitting there laughing at them the whole time."

The search for Dorner began last week after authorities said he had launched a deadly campaign of revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing, warning that he would bring "warfare" to LAPD officers and their families.

The manhunt brought police to Big Bear Lake, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles where they found Dorner's burned-out pickup truck abandoned. At some point, heavily armed officers lost his trail.

But the fact that police did not find him - even though he may have been just across the street - was shocking to many, but not totally surprising to some experts familiar with the complications of such a manhunt.

"Chilling. That's the only word I could use for that," said Ed Tatosian, a retired SWAT commander for the Sacramento Police Department. "It's not an unfathomable oversight. We're human. It happens. It's chilling (that) it does happen."

Law enforcement officers, who had gathered outside daily for briefings, were stunned by the revelation. One official later looking on Google Earth exclaimed that he'd parked right across the street from the Reynolds' cabin each day.

The Reynolds said Dorner was upstairs in their rental condo Tuesday when they arrived to clean it to rent to vacationers. Dorner, who at the time was being sought for three killings, confronted the Reynolds with a drawn gun, "jumped out and hollered 'stay calm,'" Jim Reynolds said during a Wednesday night news conference.

His wife screamed and ran downstairs but Dorner caught her, Reynolds said. The couple said they were taken to a bedroom where he ordered them to lie on a bed and then on the floor. Dorner bound their arms and legs with plastic ties, gagged them with towels and covered their heads with pillowcases, they said.

"I really thought it could be the end," Karen Reynolds said.

The couple believes Dorner had been staying in the cabin at least since Friday. Dorner told them he had been watching them by day from inside the cabin as they did work outside. The couple, who live nearby, only entered the unit Tuesday. "He said we are very hard workers," Karen Reynolds said.

After he fled in their purple Nissan, she managed to call 911 from a cellphone on the coffee table. Police said Dorner later killed a sheriff's deputy during a standoff, and died inside a burning cabin where he had sought refuge.

While authorities have not corroborated the couple's account, it matched early reports from law enforcement officials that a couple had been tied up and their car stolen by a man resembling Dorner. Property records showed the Reynolds as the condo's owners.

As police await confirmation that the body found inside the cabin was Dorner's, questions fester about how one of the largest manhunts in years could have missed him.

After finding his burned-out pickup last Thursday, San Bernardino Sheriff's Department officials said deputies went door to door to search roughly 600 cabins for forced entry. Many of the cabins were boarded-up vacation homes.

Authorities said officers looked for signs that someone had forcibly entered the buildings, or that heat was on inside in a cabin that otherwise looked uninhabited.

SWAT officers had been ferried out of the lot near the Reynolds' condo during a Friday snowstorm, and through the weekend they stood outside in plain view from the cabin, gearing up in helmets, bulletproof vests, with assault weapons at the ready.

According to the Reynolds, the cabin had cable TV, and a second-story view that would have allowed him to see choppers flying in and out.

Timothy Clemente, a retired FBI SWAT team leader, said searchers had to work methodically. When there's a hot pursuit, they can run after a suspect into a building. But in a manhunt, the search has to slow down. "You can't just kick in every door," he said. Police have to have a reason to enter a building.

Officers would have been approaching each cabin, rock and tree with the prospect that Dorner was behind and waiting for them with a weapon that could penetrate bulletproof vests. In his manifesto posted online, Dorner, a former Navy reservist, said he had no fear of losing his life and would wage "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" and warned officers "you will now live the life of the prey."

Even peering through windows can tactically be difficult with glare that requires officers to remove their hands off a weapon to gain a view inside. Experts said it is likely officers may have used binoculars to help examine homes from a distance, especially when dealing with a man who had already killed three people, including a police officer.

In many cases officers didn't even knock on the door, according to searchers. "Going and knocking on the door, if Chris Dorner's on the other side of the door, what would the response be? A .50 caliber round or .223 round straight through that door," Clemente said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A sheriff says his deputies did not intentionally burn down a California mountain cabin where fugitive ex-police officer Christopher Dorner is believed to have died.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said Wednesday that his deputies shot pyrotechnic tear gas into the cabin and it erupted in flames.

He says the tactic was intended to drive Dorner out, but it was not their intention to set the cabin on fire.

McMahon did not say directly that the tear gas started the blaze and the cause of the fire remained unclear.

A body believed to be Dorner was discovered in the ashes of the cabin, but McMahon said authorities have not positively identified the remains.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy killed in a shootout with a man believed to be fugitive former LAPD officer Chris Dorner had gone into the search happy to help his community but wary of the dangers.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon identified the deputy Wednesday as Jeremiah MacKay, a man who grew up in the area and followed his father into public service.

MacKay suffered multiple gunshot wounds Tuesday and was transported to Loma Linda Hospital where he died of his injuries. He was 35.

MacKay was a detective who had been with the department for 15 years.

He leaves behind a wife, a 7-year-old daughter and a 4-month-old son.

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Lompoc police are relieved that the manhunt for fugitive Christopher Dorner is over.

Dorner is the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing four people, including two officers. He is believed to have died in a burned mountain cabin Tuesday in Big Bear Lake after a standoff with police.

Lompoc Captain Don Deming previously worked at the LAPD. He was mentioned in Dorner's "manifesto" posted on Facebook as someone who could confirm Dorner was a good report writer before he was fired.

Dorner had also threatened in his posting to wage "unconventional warfare" on law enforcement officers and their families.

Lompoc police took precautions to protect Captain Deming and his family while Dorner was on the run.

Chief Larry Ralston said the past several days were stressful for Captain Deming and his family who were displaced while the manhunt for Doerner was underway.

Chief Ralston expects Captain Deming to be back to work on Friday.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - A driver whose truck was taken by a carjacker believed to be a fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop said Wednesday the man appeared calm and didn't want to hurt him.

Rick Heltebrake said he instantly recognized Christopher Dorner, who had an assault rifle pointed at him Tuesday on a Southern California mountain road.

Heltebrake said the carjacker took the truck, and seconds later gunfire broke out.

The carjacker then ran into a nearby cabin and was involved in a shootout with law enforcement.

The carjacking came as police scoured mountain peaks for days, using everything from bloodhounds to helicopters equipped with high-tech search equipment in their manhunt for Dorner.

They had no idea he was so close, possibly holed up in a vacation cabin across the street from their command post.

It was there that Dorner may have taken refuge last Thursday, four days after beginning a deadly rampage that claimed four lives.

The search ended Tuesday when a man believed to be Dorner bolted from hiding, stole two vehicles, barricaded himself in another vacant cabin miles away and mounted a last stand in the furious shootout in which he killed one sheriff's deputy and wounded another before the building erupted in flames.

He never emerged from the ruins, and hours later a charred body was found in the basement of the burned cabin along with a wallet and personal items, including a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner, an official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

The coroner's office is studying the remains to positively determine the identity. It was not clear how the cabin caught fire.

Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Andrew Neiman said Wednesday the agency had returned to normal patrol operations but about a dozen of the more than 50 protective details guarding possible Dorner targets would remain in place until the remains are positively identified.

"This really is not a celebration," he said.

Neiman would not answer any questions regarding what occurred in the mountains of San Bernardino County the previous day, saying it was that jurisdiction's investigation.

LAPD officers used the Internet to monitor radio chatter during the shootout.

"It was horrifying to listen to that firefight and to hear those words. 'Officer down' is the most gut-wrenching experience that you can have as a police officer," Neiman said.

Dorner, 33, had said in a lengthy rant that police believe he posted on Facebook last week that he expected to die in one final, violent confrontation with police, and if it was him in the cabin that's what happened.

The apparent end came in the same mountain range where his trail went cold six days earlier, when his burning pickup truck - with guns and camping gear inside - was abandoned with a broken axle on a fire road in San Bernardino National Forest near the ski resort town of Big Bear Lake.

His footprints led away from the truck and vanished on frozen soil. Deputies searched door-to-door in the city of Big Bear Lake and then, in a blinding snowstorm, SWAT teams focused on hundreds of vacant cabins in the forest outside of town.

With no sign of him and few leads, police offered a $1 million reward to bring him to justice and end a "reign of terror" that had more than 50 families of targeted Los Angeles police officers under round-the-clock protection after he threatened to bring "warfare" to the LAPD, officers and their kin.

Just a few hours after police announced Tuesday that they had fielded more than 1,000 tips with no sign of Dorner, word came that a man matching his description had tied up two people in a Big Bear Lake cabin, stole their car and fled.

Lt. Patrick Foy with the California Fish and Wildlife Department, which aided the search, said two housekeepers surprised Dorner in the cabin when they came to clean it Tuesday morning. The women were tied up but one was able to free herself and call 911, Foy said.

Fish and Wildlife wardens spotted the Nissan that had been reported stolen going in the opposite direction and gave chase, Foy said. The driver looked like Dorner.

They lost the car after it passed a school bus and turned onto a side road, but two other Fish and Wildlife patrols turned up the road a short time later, and were searching for the car when a white pickup truck sped erratically toward them in the Seven Oaks area, about 30 miles down Highway 38 from Big Bear Lake.

"He took a close look at the driver and realized it was the suspect," Foy said.

Dorner, who allegedly stole the pickup truck at gunpoint after crashing the first car, rolled down a window and opened fire on the wardens, striking their truck more than a dozen times, he said.

One of the wardens shot at the suspect as he rounded a curve in the road. It's unclear if he was hit, but the stolen pickup careened off the road and crashed in a snow bank.

The driver then ran to the cabin where he barricaded himself and got in the shootout with San Bernardino County deputies and other officers, two of whom were shot, one fatally.

A SWAT team surrounded the cabin and used an armored vehicle to break out the cabin windows, said a law enforcement official who requested anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The officers then lobbed tear gas canisters into the cabin and blasted a message over a loudspeaker: "Surrender or come out."

The armored vehicle then tore down each of the cabin's four walls.

A single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, the law enforcement official said.

Until Tuesday, authorities weren't sure Dorner was still in Big Bear Lake, where his pickup was found within walking distance from the cabin where he apparently hid.

With many searchers leaving town amid speculation Dorner was long gone, the command center across the street was taken down Monday.

Police said Dorner began his murderous run on Feb. 6 after they connected the Feb. 3 slayings of a former police captain's daughter and her fiance with his angry manifesto.

Dorner blamed former LAPD Capt. Randal Quan for providing poor representation before a police disciplinary board that fired him for filing a false report. Dorner, who is black, claimed in his online rant that he was the subject of racism by the department and was targeted for reporting misconduct by other police.

Dorner vowed to get even with those who had wronged him as part of his plan to reclaim his reputation.

"You're going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!" the rant said. "You have awoken a sleeping giant."

Within hours of being named as a suspect in the double murder, the 6-foot, 270-pounder described as armed and "extremely dangerous," tried unsuccessfully to steal a boat in San Diego to flee to Mexico. After leaving a trail of evidence, he headed north where he opened fire on two patrol cars in Riverside County, shooting three officers and killing one.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - A string of events that ended with the death of the man believed to be a wanted ex-Los Angeles police officer started when he encountered a mother and daughter pair of housekeepers at a cabin in the mountains east of Los Angeles.

Family member Jay Hylton told KABC-TV the pair wasn't hurt. The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/XKkGt8 ) reported the women surprised Dorner Tuesday, he tied them up and then fled in a purple Nissan.

The Times reported that one maid eventually broke free and called 911.

About a half hour later, the suspect got into gunfights with authorities, one of whom was killed, after barricading himself in a cabin where a charred body was found, along with Dorner's driver's license.

LAPD says its operations are back to normal.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - An official briefed on the investigation tells The Associated Press that a wallet with a California driver's license with the name Christopher Dorner has been found in the rubble of a cabin.

A charred body was also found inside after a shootout and fire.

Authorities believe the remains are those of the former Los Angeles police officer, but they have not been formally identified.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation and says the charred body and personal items were found in the basement of the burned cabin. The area is in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles.

Two sheriff's deputies were also shot, one fatally. Dorner is also suspected of earlier killing a young couple and a police officer, and wounding two other officers.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - A sheriff's spokeswoman says charred human remains have been found in the burned-out cabin where a fugitive former Los Angeles police officer was believed to be.

San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller says the remains were found late Tuesday after a shootout that killed one sheriff's deputy and injured another. Authorities believe Christopher Dorner barricaded himself inside the cabin and a fire later ensued.

Investigators will attempt to determine if the remains are Dorner's through forensic tests.

Thousands of officers had been on the hunt for the former Navy reservist since police said he launched a campaign to exact revenge against the Los Angeles Police Department for his firing.

Police had been searching the snow-covered woods near Big Bear Lake, a resort town about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, after Dorner's truck was found late last week.

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A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department says the cabin at the center of a gun battle in the San Bernardino mountains Tuesday is still too hot to enter. Police say officers have not found a body in the cabin, despite earlier published reports that a body had been found. They plan to search the cabin when it is safe to do so.

One deputy was killed in a shootout at the cabin Tuesday afternoon with a man authorities earlier said they believed was Christopher Dorner, an ex-LAPD officer on the run since police say Dorner launched a deadly campaign to get revenge for his firing.

BIG BEAR, Calif. (AP) - A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that the man believed to be fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner never came out of a California mountain cabin engulfed in flames.

The person who requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation said a single gunshot apparently fired inside the cabin was heard just before the fire broke out Tuesday.

Officials were waiting for the fire to burn out before approaching the ruins to search for a body.

Authorities believe Dorner barricaded himself in the cabin after exchanging gunfire with deputies, killing one and wounding another.

BIG BEAR, Calif. (AP) - San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says one of two deputies wounded in a gunbattle with a man believed to be a fugitive ex-LA cop has died.

The gunbattle broke out in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles early Tuesday afternoon.

The area had been searched since fired Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner's pickup truck was found burned out near the Big Bear lake ski resort on Thursday.

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According to the Los Angeles Times, one deputy who was shot in a gun battle with ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner has died.

The newspaper reports another deputy is also wounded after a shootout with the fugitive ex-cop near Big Bear.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say the former Los Angeles police officer wanted for killing three people is holed up in a cabin miles from where his truck was found.

A sheriff's official says Christopher Dorner stole a vehicle Tuesday near Big Bear Lake, abandoned it after a chase, ran into the forest and barricaded himself in the cabin. He got into a gunfight with officers, two of whom were injured.

As the crow flies, it's about five miles from where Dorner's pickup was found Thursday, though a ridge with peaks topping 8,000 feet lies between the locations. By road, the areas are about 30 miles apart.

The manhunt for Dorner began Wednesday. In an online post, he targeted dozens of people he feels are responsible for his firing from the LAPD in 2008.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer is barricaded in a cabin in the Southern California mountains.

Someone in the Big Bear Lake area reported a stolen vehicle Tuesday and described the suspect as looking very similar to Christopher Dorner.

The vehicle was found and the person ran into the forest and barricaded himself inside a cabin.

Authorities say a short time later there was an exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and the suspect.

Two law enforcement officers are being airlifted to a local hospital with unknown injuries.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A law enforcement official says a person believed to be the fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop sought in three killings has exchanged gunfire with authorities in the San Bernardino Mountains.

The officer requested anonymity because the officer was not authorized to speak publicly about the ongoing investigation.

The officer tells The Associated Press it's believed Christopher Dorner committed a residential burglary of a cabin and had a couple tied up in the cabin. One was able to get away and make a call.

Authorities responded to the location and gave chase Tuesday when Dorner fled in a stolen car. Gunfire was exchanged.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - AP law enforcement source: Fugitive ex-cop exchanges fire with S. California authorities.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police are now investigating more than 1,000 tips from the public in the search for the fired officer suspected of a deadly revenge plot against the Los Angeles Police Department.

LAPD spokesman Lt. Andrew Neiman says the number of tips has grown from an initial 250 since the city offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of Christopher Dorner.

Neiman told a press conference Tuesday outside police headquarters that detectives have obtained new security video from a sporting goods store but have not determined if it shows Dorner.

The video posted earlier on TMZ.com shows a man arriving with two small scuba tanks and then leaving with both those tanks and a larger one.

Dorner is suspected of three murders and three attempted murders.

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California Catholic school is shut down because of reported threats against the family of the church pastor by murder suspect Christopher Dorner.

KCAL-TV (http://cbsloc.al/YTelwg ) says classes at Holy Angels School in Arcadia are canceled through at least Wednesday.

The station says classes were cancelled after the pastor called Arcadia police to say a member of his family was named in Dorner's online manifesto.

Police say they're making patrols.

Dorner is a former Los Angeles police officer. He's suspected of killing three people in retaliation for his firing.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) - U.S. border inspectors are warning of unusually heavy traffic at California border crossings into Mexico amid the search for a fugitive ex-police officer wanted in the slayings of three people.

Customs and Border Protection said Monday that it has joined efforts to find 33-year-old Christopher Dorner in Southern California. Heightened vehicle inspections are producing delays at San Diego's San Ysidro (ee-SEE'-droh) border crossing into Tijuana.

Baja California state police agents assigned to search for American fugitives have been given photographs of Dorner. International liaison Alfredo Arenas says the Mexican agents have been warned to consider the suspect armed and extremely dangerous.

Dorner was charged Monday with murdering a police officer and attempting to murder three others in Riverside County.

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - A fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer has been charged with murdering a Riverside police officer and special circumstances that could bring the death penalty.

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach says Christopher Dorner is also charged with the attempted murder of another Riverside officer and two LAPD officers.

The charges announced Monday do not involve two other people Dorner is suspected of killing in Orange County.

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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - The ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department are stretched thin by the manhunt for an ex-cop wanted for three homicides and added security needed for Sunday night's Grammy Awards.

The department remains on tactical alert, which means officers are staying on duty beyond their shifts.

Officer Sara Faden says the alert was called on Sunday afternoon, before the nighttime Grammys, and it remains in place early Monday.

There's no word on the when the alert will be lifted.

Authorities say the LAPD needs the extra manpower as it hunts for fired officer Christopher Dorner and protects 50 families he allegedly threatened.

Faden says the department also must cope with everyday needs and calls for service.

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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Police evacuated a Los Angeles home improvement store Sunday after a caller said they had seen someone resembling a fugitive ex-police officer suspected of three killings.

Los Angeles police spokesman Gus Villanueva says the caller reported a sighting of 33-year-old Christopher Dorner. Police were sent to the Northridge area but Villanueva later said a search of the Lowe's Home Improvement store yielded no evidence that Dorner was there or had been there.

News helicopters earlier showed police helping customers and employees leave the store. A command post was established nearby.

The search since Thursday evening had focused on mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles where Dorner's burned truck was found. But authorities have found no recent signs of Dorner.

LA officials announced a $1 million reward earlier Sunday for information leading to Dorner's arrest.

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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Police have evacuated a Los Angeles home improvement store after a caller said they had seen someone resembling a fugitive ex-police officer suspected of three killings.

Los Angeles police spokesman Gus Villanueva says the caller reported a sighting of 33-year-old Christopher Dorner on Sunday. Police were sent to the Northridge area but Villanueva couldn't say whether the tip has turned out to be legitimate.

News helicopters showed police helping customers and employees leave a Lowe's Home Improvement store. A command post has been established nearby.

The search since Thursday evening had focused on mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles where Dorner's burned truck was found. But authorities have found no recent signs of Dorner.

LA officials announced a $1 million reward earlier Sunday for information leading to Dorner's arrest.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Detectives are investigating a taunting phone call that may have been made by a fugitive ex-LAPD officer to the father of the woman they believe he killed in Southern California.

Two law enforcement officers who requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation told The Associated Press on Sunday they are trying to determine if the call days after the killing was made by Christopher Dorner or a man posing as him.

The caller allegedly told retired police Capt. Randal Quan that he should have done a better job protecting his daughter. Monica Quan and her fiance were shot dead last Sunday.

Randal Quan represented Dorner in the disciplinary proceedings that led to his firing.

Dorner wrote in his manifesto that he believed the retired captain had represented the interests of the department over his.

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The Los Angeles Police Department is creating a Dorner Task Force dedicated to capturing Christopher Dorner, the man suspected of going on a revenge killing spree in Los Angeles earlier this week.

The Irvine Police Department, Riverside Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Marshall Service, Los Angeles Police Department, and several other agencies are part of the search efforts.

Authorities are also asking the public to provide information that will assist in locating Dorner as soon as possible.

If you have any information, call the Los Angeles Police Department at (213) 486-6860. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 222-8477.

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) - Authorities served a search warrant at a Southern California storage unit as part of their investigation into a fugitive former Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing three people.

Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen said Saturday that evidence was collected late Friday night from the facility in Buena Park. She wouldn't elaborate on the nature of the evidence or say who had rented the storage unit.

On Friday, another warrant was served at a La Palma house belonging to Christopher Dorner's mother. Officers collected 10 bags of evidence including five electronic items.

Authorities suspect Dorner in a series of attacks that left three people dead, including a police officer. Authorities say he has vowed revenge against several former LAPD colleagues who he believed cost him his law enforcement career.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities hunting for an ex-Los Angeles police officer suspected of three killings have wrapped up a four-hour search of his mother's Orange County home.

Irvine police Lt. Bill Whalen says his department and U.S. marshals removed 10 paper grocery bags of evidence from the home Friday in La Palma. He didn't elaborate.

Computer forensics lab technicians removed five items as evidence.

Whalen says Dorner used to live at the home, but nothing indicates he's been there recently. Dorner's mother and sister cooperated with the search.

Dorner is suspected in a spree of violence as revenge for being fired from the Los Angeles force.

A former LAPD captain's daughter and her fiance were killed in Irvine last weekend. A pair of shootings Thursday killed one officer and wounded two others.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - With the possibility of a killer lurking in their midst, people in the mountain resort town of Big Bear Lake say they're locking themselves in their homes and keeping their guns handy.

As police searched the rugged area 90 miles east of Los Angeles on Friday, local resident Dennis Pitner said most folks he knows are planning on staying inside for the next few days.

Others have firearms nearby.

Authorities believe disgruntled ex-police officer Christopher Dorner fled to the rugged area after killing three people. They found his burned-out truck there this week.

Simeon Prophet of Big Bear Lake says she learned firsthand just how serious the search is when she dropped in on a neighbor Thursday night.

Prophet says she was confronted by three SWAT team officers.

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ORANGE, Calif. (AP) - Court documents show an ex-girlfriend of a former Los Angeles police officer suspected of three murders called him "severely emotionally and mentally disturbed" after the two split.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press on Friday show ex-officer Christopher Dorner unsuccessfully requested a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend, Ariana Williams, in 2006 after he claimed she posted his badge number on a website called Dontdatehimgirl.com.

The posting is signed "anonymous" and calls Dorner "twisted" and "super paranoid."

Dorner is suspected of killing a former LAPD captain's daughter, her fiance and a Riverside police officer. He's also suspected of wounding two other officers.

Dorner posted a 14-page manifesto online vowing revenge for his 2008 firing from the LAPD.

Williams denied writing the post. Her attorney didn't return a call or email Friday.

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Located just 90 miles to the east of Los Angeles, in the rugged San Bernardino National Forest, Big Bear Lake provides the perfect weekend refuge for folks fleeing the crowded, smelly streets and smoggy skies of the city for a quick winter weekend of alpine skiing. In the summer months, it offers a respite of boating and swimming in one of California's most pristine alpine lakes. This week, however, the quiet resort with the picturesque lake and rugged snow-capped peaks may be providing the perfect hideout for a disgruntled ex-police officer authorities believe is holed up somewhere in its rugged backcountry after allegedly killing three people.

ABOUT THE AREA: Big Bear Valley is home to approximately 20,000 residents, including about 5,000 who live in the city of Big Bear Lake, a place instantly recognizable to visitors for its quaint village atmosphere that looks like it could have been time-warped from the 1950s. Until Christopher Dorner, the ex-cop, was believed to have taken refuge there, one of the biggest stories amid the souvenir shops, sports equipment rental outlets and modest family friendly restaurants was word that the City Council was toughening the sign ordinance. On Sunday evening, the area made the news when a tour bus winding down a mountain road from the town crashed, killing eight.

GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES: Big Bear Lake, with 23 miles of shoreline, sits at an elevation of 6,750 feet. Surrounding mountain peaks rise to 9,000 feet and offer stunning views that, on clear days, extend miles away to the Pacific Ocean.

WEATHER: Unlike Los Angeles, the area has four distinctive seasons. High temperatures can range from the 70s to the 80s during the summer and plunge as low as the 20s in the winter when snow blankets the area and gives downtown Big Bear Lake a post-card perfect appearance. A powerful snowstorm arrived this week, just after police believe Dorner did, and that could provide him with good cover as authorities search empty summer campgrounds, weekend cabins and frigid mountain trails for him.

WINTER AND SUMMER ACTIVITIES: The area's two major ski resorts offer more than 50 runs between them, all of which were open Friday as authorities looked for Dorner. Public schools were closed. Numerous campgrounds, popular in the summer, also dot the area. The lake itself is a hugely popular, and often crowded, summer attraction, so much so that Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny himself, once lampooned it in a song called "Big Bear Lake," in which he complained of the nonstop racket created by outboard boat engines.

HISTORY: The area was originally settled by Native Americans called Serranos, a name given them by early explorers using the Spanish word for mountain. Its first population boom occurred in the 1860s after gold was discovered. The area didn't become a resort destination until the 1880s when the construction of Bear Valley Dam created the lake. The first ski lift arrived in 1949.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Southern California authorities hunting a triple-murder suspect plan to search through the weekend in snow-covered mountains where the former Los Angeles police officer torched and abandoned his pickup truck.

As of noon Friday there has been no sign of Christopher Dorner, but San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says searchers will press on unless there's evidence Dorner has left the Big Bear Lake area.

Deputies have searched many residences and are now focusing on 200 vacant cabins in the surrounding forest.

Mayor Jay Obernolte says there's been no panic. He says ski areas are open because there's no substantial threat to the resorts.

Dorner is suspected of killing a former LAPD captain's daughter, her fiance and a Riverside police officer. He's also suspected of wounding two other officers.

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Law enforcement officers working in falling snow searched a Southern California mountain Friday for the former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.

"We're going to continue searching until either we discover that he left the mountain or we find him, one of the two," San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a midmorning news conference.

More than 100 officers from various agencies were searching for Christopher Dorner in the Big Bear Lake region of the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles.

SWAT teams were driven up snowbound roads on Snowcat tractors and armored personnel carriers equipped with snow chains, he said, but helicopters with heat-sensing technology were grounded because of the storm.

Visibility was low as clouds shrouded Big Bear' towering, forested peaks.

A search of dozens of homes in the Big Bear community failed to find Dorner and the search was concentrating farther back in the mountains, near and above the place where his burnt-out pickup truck was found on Thursday, the sheriff said.

Officers followed what appeared to be Dorner's tracks from the truck but lost them on the frozen ground, McMahon said.

"There's a lot of cabins up there that are abandoned. We want to make sure that he didn't find a place to hide out for the night," he said.

A couple of reported sightings of Dorner didn't pan out and "we have no information that he's come down into the community at all," McMahon said.

Local ski areas were open, but Bear Valley schoolchildren had the day off because of the manhunt.

In Los Angeles, the head of the Police Department's detective bureau said all options in the search were being kept open.

"Here's the bottom line: We don't know if he's on foot or not," said Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese. "Is he on foot up on the mountain? Is he down the mountain? We don't know."

In San Diego County, up to 16 sheriff's deputies spent the night surrounding and searching a rural home after a hoaxer reported Dorner was there. There were people at home but Dorner wasn't one of them, said Lt. Jason Rothlein. Investigators have a pretty good idea who made the call and will seek criminal charges, he said.

Though the focus is on the resort area, the search for Dorner, 33, stretches across California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico. LAPD officers are especially on edge because Dorner promised in rambling writings to bring "warfare" to police and their families.

Dorner, also a former Naval reservist and onetime college running back, was fired from the LAPD years ago. Albanese said it's not known why the violence is occurring now.

The saga began Sunday night, when Monica Quan, the daughter of a former Los Angeles police captain, and fiance Keith Lawrence were found shot in their car at a parking structure at their condominium in Irvine. Quan was an assistant women's basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton.

The following morning in National City, near San Diego, some of Dorner's belongings, including police equipment and paperwork with names related to the LAPD, were found in a trash bin.

The LAPD was notified of the find, and two days later informed Irvine police of an angry manifesto written by a former officer and posted on Facebook. Among those named as targets was Quan's father, Randal Quan, the former LAPD captain who became an attorney who represented Dorner in his unsuccessful attempts to keep the police job he lost in 2008 for making false statements.

"Bing bing bing, the dots were connecting," Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen said. "These names are somehow associated to Mr. Quan, who just lost his daughter the prior day. The dots connected. OK, now we've got a name of somebody to look at. That's when the discovery was connected."

On Wednesday night, Irvine and Los Angeles police announced they were searching for Dorner, declaring him armed and "extremely dangerous." Hours later, they learned they were all too correct.

Two LAPD officers en route to provide security to one of Dorner's possible targets were flagged down by a resident who reported seeing the suspect early Thursday at a gas station in Corona. The officers then followed a pickup truck until it stopped. The driver, believed to be Dorner, got out and fired a rifle, police said. A bullet grazed an officer's head.

Later, two officers on routine patrol in neighboring Riverside were ambushed at a stoplight by a motorist who drove up next to them and opened fire with a rifle. One died and the other was seriously wounded but was expected to survive, said Riverside police Chief Sergio Diaz.

Thousands of heavily armed officers patrolled highways throughout Southern California, while some stood guard outside the homes of people police said Dorner vowed to attack. Electronic billboards, which usually alert motorists about the commute, urged them to call 911 if they saw him.

At a news conference held amid heightened security in an underground room at police headquarters, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck urged Dorner to surrender.

"Of course he knows what he's doing; we trained him. He was also a member of the Armed Forces," he said. "It is extremely worrisome and scary."

While in the Naval Reserves, Dorner earned a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records, taking a leave from the LAPD to be deployed to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.

He wrote that he would "utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordinance and survival training I've been given," the manifesto read.

The hunt led to two errant shootings in the pre-dawn darkness Thursday.

LAPD officers guarding a target named in the manifesto shot and wounded two women in suburban Torrance who were in a pickup truck delivering newspapers. Investigators said Maggie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, were in a Toyota Tacoma, similar to Dorner's Nissan Titan. Carranza had minor hand injuries. Hernandez was hospitalized with a gunshot wound in the back. A lawyer said they had no warning.

Minutes later, Torrance officers responding to a report of gunshots encountered a dark pickup matching the description of Dorner's, police said. A collision occurred and the officers fired on the pickup. The unidentified driver was not hit and it turned out not to be the suspect vehicle, they said.

In San Diego, where police said Dorner tied up an elderly man and unsuccessfully tried to steal his boat Wednesday night, Naval Base Point Loma was locked down Thursday after a Navy worker reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner.

Navy Cmdr. Brad Fagan said officials believe Dorner had checked into a base hotel on Tuesday and left the next day without checking out. Numerous agencies guarded the base on Thursday. Fagan said Dorner was honorably discharged and that his last day in the Navy was last Friday.

Nevada authorities also joined the search, because Dorner owns a house nine miles from the Las Vegas Strip.

And agents were inspecting a package sent to CNN's Anderson Cooper that arrived in New York on Feb. 1, days before the first two killings. It contained a note on it that read, in part, "I never lied." A coin typically given out as a souvenir by the police chief was also in the package, riddled with bullet holes.

Albanese said the package sent to Cooper was being reviewed by the LAPD.

"We're working through mail and other things to understand the origin and everything we can learn about that," Albanese said. "There may have been one other media source contacted in that way as well, we're working on that."

Albanese said the packages sent as long ago as last week indicates "pre-planning."

Dorner's writings suggested he did not expect to live through the ordeal.

"Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared," he wrote at one point in his manifesto, later saying, "Self-preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago."

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Law enforcement officers are continuing to search a snow-covered mountain near a Southern California ski area for a fired Los Angeles police officer suspected of three murders.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says the hunt will go on until Christopher Dorner is found or there's evidence that he's left the mountain.

Searchers Friday are dealing with falling snow and freezing temperatures in the Big Bear Lake region of the San Bernardino Mountains.

The manhunt focused on Big Bear after Dorner's burned-out pickup was found on a forest road Thursday.

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) - Police spent all night searching the snowy mountains of Southern California but didn't find the former Los Angeles officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job.

Authorities plan a mid-morning update in Big Bear Lake, where Christopher Dorner's torched pickup was found Thursday.

Local ski areas are open Friday but schools are closed because of the manhunt.

San Diego County sheriff's deputies spent the night surrounding and searching a rural home after a hoaxer reported Dorner was there. It tied up 16 deputies.

Dorner is accused of killing his lawyer's daughter and her fiance last weekend and shooting at police officers Thursday, killing one and critically wounding another.

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TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - A lawyer says two women delivering newspapers had no warning before they were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police officers searching for triple murder suspect Christopher Dorner.

Investigators say 47-year-old Maggie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother Emma Hernandez were in a Toyota Tundra pickup truck similar to Dorner's vehicle.

They were delivering newspapers in Torrance when LAPD officers guarding a target named in Dorner's manifesto peppered the pickup with bullets, wounding the women, before dawn on Thursday.

Police Chief Charlie Beck says the pickup's headlights weren't on and it was a case of mistaken identity.

The women's attorney, Glen Jonas, tells KCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/XqHWfF ) there were no warnings and no orders. Just gunshots.

Carranza had minor hand injuries. Hernandez is hospitalized with a gunshot wound in the back.

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Information from: KCBS-TV, http://www.cbs2.com/

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown is offering condolences to the family of a Riverside police officer who was one of three people believed to be killed by a former Los Angeles police officer during a shooting spree across Southern California.

In a statement issued late Thursday, the Democratic governor said he was "shocked and saddened" when he learned about the attack that took place early that morning.

The name of the officer is not being released while the suspect, Christopher Dorner, remains at large. Dorner is the subject of a widespread manhunt that focused on the mountain community of Big Bear late Thursday.

Brown's office said the 34-year-old field training officer who was shot as he and a trainee were stopped for a traffic light in Riverside. The trainee was critically injured.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - "He could be anywhere." That's the latest from a Southern California law enforcement official taking part in the wide search for a fired police officer suspected of killing three people, including a police officer and a former police official's daughter.

Christopher Dorner, who was fired by the Los Angeles Police Department in 2008, has threatened to bring "warfare" to LAPD. The threat, and others, is contained in a lengthy, rambling manifesto he posted on Facebook. Dorner has threatened revenge on police officials involved in his dismissal and their relatives.

Police stationed protection units at 40 potential targets and launched a manhunt in three states and Mexico before focusing on the Big Bear Lake area, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. That's where Dorner's burned out pickup was discovered.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says 125 officers have been going door to door and attempting to track the suspect, and that a SWAT team is providing added security.

The case has rattled residents and officers. Police mistakenly opened fire on a pickup similar to the suspect's, injuring two people.

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Lompoc police are taking precautions Thursday after one of their own supervisors was mentioned in Christopher Jordan Dorner's manifesto.

Captain Don Deming is a former Los Angeles police sergeant. He was an LAPD officer for 20 years before he came to Lompoc about 5 years ago.

There has been at least one media report that Deming was on Dorner's hit list. Lompoc Police Chief Larry Ralston told KSBY that is absolutely not true.

In Dorner's writings, he referred to Deming, who was not named, as someone who could confirm that Dorner was a good report writer when he was with the LAPD.

Chief Ralston said Deming's safety is a priority for his department while the manhunt is still underway.

"We've taken precautions for he and his family. Our police department is on alert for this person. We got pictures distributed to our personnel," said Chief Ralston.

The chief also said his department is in communication with LA police.

Chief Ralston would not say what Deming was doing while the manhunt continues.

At Captain Deming's request, KSBY is not showing his photo at this time.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The FBI says a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer wanted in three killings in Southern California wasn't found when authorities served a warrant at his Las Vegas-area home.

Agent Patrick Turner says he can't immediately say whether other evidence has been found in Christopher Dorner's two-story home about 9 miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip.

SWAT teams from the FBI and local police agencies sealed off the neighborhood before entering the home a little after 4 p.m.

Dorner is suspected of killing a couple over the weekend in Orange County, and killing a police officer early Thursday in Riverside.

A manhunt in three states and Mexico is now focusing in Big Bear Lake, about 200 miles west of Las Vegas.

That's where police found Dorner's burned-out pickup truck.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities have confirmed that a burned-out pickup truck found near a Southern California ski resort belongs to a fired Los Angeles police officer wanted in three murders.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says Christopher Dorner's truck was found near the Bear Mountain ski area at Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

The sheriff says Dorner has not been located but a door-to-door search is under way.

Thousands of law enforcement officers have been searching for Dorner, who is suspected of murdering a former LAPD captain's daughter, her fiance and a Riverside city police officer. Dorner is also suspected of wounding two other officers.

A manifesto Dorner is believed to have posted online says he wants to wage war on the LAPD.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A report of a burned pickup truck on a Southern California mountain road is being investigated amid a manhunt for a fired Los Angeles police officer suspected in three murders.

TV news helicopters have shown a helicopter drop a rifle-equipped team onto a mountain near Big Bear Thursday afternoon.

San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Zach Beckum says a pickup fire was reported but there has been no sighting of suspect Christopher Dorner. Beckum also says local schools are on lockdown.

A massive manhunt is under way for Dorner, who allegedly killed a former police captain's daughter and her fiance last weekend. He's also suspected of killing a police officer and wounding two others in two separate shootings early Thursday. He was reportedly driving a pickup at the time.

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KSBY News has learned Lompoc Captain Don Deming is mentioned in the manifesto of a former Los Angeles police officer being sought for several killings.

Christopher Jordan Dorner was fired from the LAPD.

In his manifesto, Dorner states that Deming, who was not mentioned by named, wrote "impeccable" police reports.Deming worked for the LAPD before coming to Lompoc.

Captain Deming could not be reached for comment.

Tune in to KSBY News at 5 and 6 for more on this developing story.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck says the fugitive ex-police officer wanted in three murders has multiple weapons including an assault rifle.

Beck also says more than 40 protection details have been assigned to possible targets of fired officer Christopher Dorner.

Beck says the massive manhunt for Dorner may be the largest in the department's history.

Dorner is suspected of murdering a couple last weekend, killing one Riverside officer and wounding another early Thursday, and wounding an LAPD officer a short time earlier.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer wanted in a series of shootings now extends to San Diego, where police say a man matching Christopher Dorner's description attempted to steal a boat from a marina last night. Hours later, Dorner's badge and ID were found near the San Diego airport.

Authorities are also searching the Las Vegas area, where Dorner has a home.

He is suspected of killing of two people in Irvine over the weekend. One victim was the daughter of a former police captain who represented him during disciplinary proceedings that led to his firing. Dorner is now also suspected of killing one police officer and wounding another overnight in Riverside.

Dorner wrote a manifesto pledging to bring "warfare" to the LAPD.

Los Angeles police are on tactical alert. The department has taken such protective measures as reassigning motorcycle officers to cars.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police say officers guarding a target in an ex-officer's manifesto shot and wounded multiple people in Torrance who were in a pickup.

LA police Lt. Andrew Neiman says the officers were deployed in response to Christopher Dorner's written threats to department officials in a rambling 14-page manifesto.

The Daily Breeze in Torrance also reports that there was another police shooting nearby involving another pickup truck, but the driver wasn't hurt.

Authorities say Dorner has implicated himself in the killing of two people in Irvine over the weekend. He's also the suspect in the overnight killing of a police officer and critical wounding of another cop.

Police did not say how seriously the people in Torrance were injured.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police east of Los Angeles in Riverside say two officers were ambushed overnight and the suspect is a former LAPD cop who's still on the loose.

Riverside Lt. Guy Toussaint says the officers were stopped at a red light while on routine patrol around 1:30 a.m. Thursday when someone shot them.

One of the officers was killed and the other was critically wounded.

Toussaint says investigators believe the shooter was former LA police officer Christopher Dorner, who's also the main suspect in the weekend killing of a couple whose bodies were found in Irvine.

Police say Dorner implicated himself in the killings in a "manifesto" that included threats against several people, including members of the LAPD.

Toussaint says police don't where Dorner is but think he left the area.

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