Post date: Feb 10, 2013 11:20:35 PM
The Los Angeles Police Department offers a one million dollar reward for information leading to the capture of Christopher Dorner, a former police officer wanted for murder.
RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 9, 2013) (NBC) - A record $1 million reward was posted on Sunday (February 10) for information leading to the capture of a fugitive former Los Angeles cop suspected of targeting police officers and their families in three killings committed in retaliation for his 2008 firing.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said the reward, raised in part from private donations, police unions and contributions from businesses, marks the biggest sum ever offered in Southern California in a criminal investigation.The reward was posted as law enforcement agencies across the region continued their search for the suspect, ex-LAPD officer and U.S. Navy reservist Christopher Dorner, 33, for a fourth day. Beck described it as the largest manhunt ever mounted in the Los Angeles area.
The search for Dorner has been focused in the snow-covered San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles since a pickup truck belonging to Dorner was found abandoned and burning near the popular ski resort community of Big Bear Lake on Thursday (February 7).
The truck turned up in the mountains hours after police say Dorner exchanged gunfire with two officers, grazing one, and later ambushed two more policemen in their patrol car at a stoplight, killing one and badly wounding the other.
A rambling, multi-page manifesto posted on Dorner's Facebook page last week claimed he was wrongly terminated from the LAPD in September 2008, and threatened numerous police officers and their families with violent revenge.
A former Navy lieutenant, Dorner also is suspected in last weekend's shooting deaths of a campus security officer and his fiancé, the daughter of a retired Los Angeles policecaptain singled out for blame in the manifesto for Dorner's dismissal.
The retired LAPD captain had represented Dorner in disciplinary proceedings that led to his termination after a police inquiry found that he had made false statements accusing a superior officer of using excessive force against a homeless person.