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Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt

Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt
Location Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County
Date February 3–12, 2013
Target Police officers and their families
Attack type
Siege, spree killing, shootout
Weapons
Deaths 5 (including the perpetrator)
Non-fatal injuries
6 (3 by the perpetrator, 2 by LAPD, 1 by Torrance P.D.)
Perpetrator Christopher Dorner

Starting February 3, 2013, Christopher Dorner, 33, a fired Los Angeles police officer, began a series of shootings in Orange, Los Angeles, and Riverside counties in California, United States. The victims were law enforcement officers and civilians, including law enforcement families (and those who were misidentified as the suspect by police). Dorner killed four people and wounded three others. During the pursuit of Dorner, three innocent people were injured by law enforcement. The rampage ended on February 12, 2013, when Dorner died during a standoff with police at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains.

A manifesto reportedly posted by Dorner on Facebook declared "unconventional and asymmetric warfare" upon the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), their families, and their associates, unless the LAPD admitted publicly he was fired in retaliation for reporting excessive force.

In two separate incidents during the manhunt, police shot at three civilians unrelated to Dorner, mistaking their pickup trucks for the vehicle being driven by Dorner. One of the civilians was hit by the police gunfire, another was wounded by shattered glass, and a third individual was injured when police rammed his vehicle and opened fire.

Christopher Jordan Dorner (June 4, 1979 – February 12, 2013) was born in New York and grew up in the Southern Californian counties of Los Angeles and Orange. Dorner attended Cypress High School in Cypress, CA where he graduated in 1997. Dorner graduated from Southern Utah University in 2001, with a major in political science and a minor in psychology. While there, he was a football running back from 1999 to 2000.


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