Christopher Dorner

How they died

Suicide

Christopher Dorner reportedly died from an apparently self-inflicted single gunshot wound during a standoff and fire at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains. Dorner, an involuntarily terminated LAPD officer, was the subject of a massive, multi-day manhunt after he was named as a suspect in a series of shootings that killed four people and wounded three others in Southern California. San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon maintained that deputies did not deliberately set the cabin on fire. "Sheriff's Capt. Gregg Herbert, who led the assault on the cabin, said the canisters were used only as a last resort... 'This was our only option,' Herbert said of the pyrotechnic tear gas, adding that the potential for igniting a fire was taken into account. During the manhunt, police shot at three civilians in two separate incidents after mistaking their pickup trucks for Dorner's. One of the civilians was shot by police gunfire, another was wounded by shattered glass, and a third individual was injured when police rammed his other and opened fire.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Christopher Dorner, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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