The Los Angeles Times reports on the manhunt for a former LAPD officer cop killer.
Fatigue-clad officers scoured the mountainous terrain near Big Bear after a burning pickup truck was found that may belong to a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer wanted in connection with a series of shootings that have left three people dead and two wounded.
The mountain community locked down schools and closed the nearby Bear Mountain Resort as television helicopters hovered overhead, showing footage of a SWAT team walking through the woods, rifles drawn.
A law enforcement source told The Times that the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department had deployed a team to the site of the truck as a precaution. Investigators were searching for a vehicle identification number on the charred truck to see if it belonged to the suspect, Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33.
... Dorner, who was fired from the LAPD in 2009, is suspected of shooting three police officers, one of whom died, in Riverside County early Thursday.
Dorner also is suspected of killing a couple in Orange County earlier this week who were found shot in a car. One of the victims was the daughter of a former LAPD captain named in the purported manifesto.
Dorner was believed to be carrying multiple weapons, including an assault rifle.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/swat-team-searching-big-bear-mountain-for-wanted-ex-cop.html
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