As TAM Mary Ann notes on Twitter==> “Get him!” Catch live local Los Angeles coverage at KABC TV. A new report indicates on of the officers shot by Dorner today has died of his wounds.
Police were in a fierce gunfight with the fugitive ex-LAPD cop suspected of killing three and declaring war on the force, with the wanted man holed up in a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains, law enforcement sources said.
Two police officers were reportedly injured, and it was not known if Christopher Dorner was hit in the dramatic battle that unfolded Tuesday afternoon in the resort area of Big Bear. Dorner, who has vowed not to be taken alive, was firing at police and using smoke grenades. It was not clear what other weapons he had inside the cabin.
“Everyone is very hopeful that this thing ends without any more bloodshed,” LAPD Commander Andrew Smith said at a Tuesday evening news conference in Los Angeles, as LAPD and San Bernadino police tensely manned positions around the cabin. “The best thing for him now would be to surrender.
“There is a tremendous sense of apprehension about our officers here,” Smith added.
UPDATE:
Related news: “A 23-year-old University of Maryland graduate student who had been suffering from mental illness shot and killed one of his roommates and wounded another before killing himself early Tuesday morning in College Park… legally purchased the Uzi on Jan. 18 at a gun shop in Silver Spring, authorities said, and the 9 mm appeared to have been legally purchased in the Baltimore area in 2012….He had the illness for at least a year and had been prescribed medication for it,…” http://washingtonexaminer.com/police-shooter-in-university-of-maryland-murder-suicide-was-mentally-ill/article/2521299