The city of Los Angeles will pay $4.2 million to the two women injured when police mistakenly opened fire on their truck during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, a disgruntled ex-LAPD police officer who killed four people in a rampage that kept Southern California on heightened alert for days.

LA City Attorney Carmen Trutanich confirmed Tuesday morning to NBC4 that a deal has been reached with Margie Carranza and her mother, Emma Hernandez.

"The deal is relatively a very simple, very clean deal. It's a win-win for both parties," Trutanich said. "It closes this chapter in Los Angeles and LAPD history on all issues."

The $4.2 million will be split between the two women "any way they want," Trutanich said.

The shooting happened Feb. 7 about 5 a.m. as the pair was delivering newspapers in their Toyota Tacoma pickup truck in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue in the Torrance area. Earlier in the day, two Riverside officers were ambushed in their police car, and authorities were on the hunt for Dorner and his Nissan Titan.

Hernandez, 71, was shot twice in the back and Carranza, 47, was injured by broken glass.

Glen Jonas, the women's attorney, applauded the city attorney's efforts in a news conference Tuesday afternoon. He believes the city would have spent millions more if the case went to litigation.

"If this case went to litigation it would cost the city a minimum of $5 million just with defense costs," Jonas said. "And potentially – being conservative – maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million total."

Hernandez and her daughter have not spoken publicly. They are said to be in good spirits, according to Jonas.

"This doesn't change anything that happened on that day, doesn't change the trauma that they went through," Jonas said. "They will be contending with that the rest of their lives."

The search for Dorner ended Feb. 12 with a shootout and standoff in the Big Bear area.

Dorner was holed up in a cabin surrounded by authorities when a police tear gas canister shot into the residence started a fire. Dorner died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to deputies.

The City Council has to approve the settlement amount, which is scheduled for discussion on May 21.

Christopher Jordan Dorner, an apparently disgruntled former LAPD officer, is wanted in connection with multiple shootings in Southern California, according to police.

Police have accused the man of targeting officers and their families.

In a manifesto posted online, Dorner allegedly wrote, "I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I'm terminating yours."

The below embedded map shows locations connected to the alleged revenge plot and LAPD manhunt.

It will be updated as the story develops.

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2002: Christopher Dorner joins the Los Angeles Police Department, and is assigned to the Harbor Area. He also serves in the military as a reservist in the Navy.

2006: In September, Dorner is highlighted in an internal LAPD newsletter as an example of how the police agency is supporting its personnel who serve in the military. He is photographed with then-chief William Bratton, and is in the following month’s newsletter as well.

In November, he is deployed to the Persian Gulf for six months, where he serves in Bahrain and provides security for offshore oil platform. He receives several honors, including the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, a Rifle Marksman Ribbon and a Pistol Expert Medal.

2008: Dorner’s employment with the LAPD is terminated. He is accused of falsely accusing a fellow officer of kicking a suspect.

2011: Dorner’s appeal of the dismissal of his lawsuit challenging his firing is rejected by the California Court of Appeal.

Jan. 23, 2013: La Palma Police Chief Eric Nunez receives a package from Christopher Dorner containing a one-page note and a video.

Jan. 28, 2013: Dorner is at an Orange County hotel, according to surveillance footage. It is unclear if he stayed there. The Irvine Police Department later releases surveillance images, but does not specify which hotel the images were taken from.

Friday, Feb. 1, 2013: Dorner separates from the Navy with a rank of lieutenant. Surveillance video shows him buying several scuba tanks from a Sport Chalet in Torrance, TMZ later reports.

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013: Monica Quan and her fiancé Keith Lawrence are shot to death while sitting in their car on the top floor of the parking garage of their Irvine condo complex. Quan is later identified as the daughter of Randal Quan, the LAPD’s first Asian-American captain, who Dorner's manifesto states was involved in the ex-officer's firing.

Monday, Feb. 4, 2013: Dorner checks in to a base hotel at Naval Base Point Loma in the San Diego area.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013: 

2:30 P.M.: Dorner approaches two sailors attending security training in the parking lot near Navy Outlying Field in Imperial Beach, according to officials. The sailors report the incident after seeing Dorner's face on the news the next day.

7:30 P.M.: LAPD officers identify Dorner as the man they suspect of killing Quan and Lawrence.

The LAPD releases a manifesto allegedly written by Dorner that names Asian-American, lesbian, Hispanic and African-American police officers as "high-value targets." The 11,400-word document identifies specific individuals he intends to target.

10:26 P.M.: A man resembling Dorner attempts to steal a boat in the San Diego area. San Diego police are called to the Southwestern Yacht Club located at 2702 Qualtrough St. for an apparent failed boatjacking in which an 81-year-old man on the vessel was tied up.

Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013

1:25 A.M.: In Corona, a man police believe is Dorner shoots at two LAPD officers who had been assigned to protect people targeted in the manifesto. One officer's forehead is grazed by a bullet.

1:45 A.M.: A man police believe is Dorner ambushes two Riverside police officers, killing one and severely wounding the other.

5 A.M.: Police shoot and injure two people when they think they spot Dorner's truck in the 5 a.m. hour in Torrance and Redondo Beach. Police were guarding a target named in the manifesto.

About two blocks away and 25 minutes after the women are shot, police officers open fire on another innocent driver traveling in a truck that vaguely resembled Dorner’s.

8:30 A.M.: A burned-out vehicle of the same model as Dorner's is found abandoned in the woods near Big Bear Mountain ski resort, which is later shut down for the day. Area schools are placed on lockdown, and sheriff's deputies and SWAT teams conduct door-to-door searches into the night.

10:30 A.M.:  A local San Diego man is mistaken for Dorner at a Holiday Inn Hotel parking lot. Police draw weapons, including a machine gun, before handcuffing the man briefly. After they confirm he is not Dorner, he is released.

Daytime: The U.S. Marshals Service files an affidavit with a criminal complaint (PDF) in federal court against Dorner for fleeing to avoid prosecution. The complaint states that a suspect matching Dorner's description was seen "attempting to flee to Mexico," and that there is cause to believe Dorner has traveled to Mexico. An LAPD official later states the affidavit "in no way indicates Dorner was or was not in Mexico."

12:30 P.M.: Former LAPD Capt. Randal Quan receives a call from a man identifying himself as Dorner, saying Quan "should have done a better job of protecting his daughter." The call is traced to Vancouver, Wash., but authorities do not believe that Dorner was in Washington state, the federal complaint states.

11:20 P.M.: A call is received at the San Diego County Sheriff's Department alleging Dorner is in a home on Wildcat Canyon Road and Ketuul Uunyaa Way. By 4 a.m. -- six hours later -- the call is determined to be a hoax.

Friday, Feb. 8, 2013:

Overnight: Law enforcement agents conduct an overnight search in Big Bear amid temperatures that drop into the 20s.

9 A.M.: San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon says conditions are "extremely dangerous" in the search area in and around Big Bear.

Noon:  Law enforcement officers search the La Palma home belonging to Dorner's mother, removing large paper bags. Dorner's mother and sister are present and cooperative.

Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013:

Saturday marks the four-year anniversary of Dorner's dismissal from the LAPD.

6 A.M.:  The manhunt for Dorner resumes at daybreak in Big Bear. It is not clear whether a broken axle on his truck caused him to get stuck in the mountains, or whether the axle broke when authorities pulled the truck out.

8 A.M.:  Former LAPD Chief William Bratton calls Dorner an "injustice collector" on the "Today Show." Bratton also says Dorner is a disgruntled individual who will not turn himself in.

3:03 P.M.:  A moment of silence is observed at the Cal State Fullerton basketball game for Monica Quan, the former assistant basketball coach at CSUF and alleged victim of Dorner.

Sunday, Feb.  10, 2013:

7 A.M. Search for Dorner begins again at Big Bear, but authorities hint that the alleged shooter may no longer be in the area.

1 P.M. Authorities announce a $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner's capture. In Riverside, police identified their slain colleague as Michael Crain, 34, a father of two.

3:30 P.M. Police receive two calls saying someone who looked like Dorner was in a Lowe's home improvement store in the San Fernando Valley community of Northridge. Officers shut down the store and swarm the location, but it turns out to be one of several false alarms in the case.

Monday, Feb. 11, 2013:

1 P.M.: The Riverside County District Attorney's Office announces a murder and three attempted murder charges against Dorner in connection with the Feb. 7 shooting involving Riverside officers.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013:

Investigators ask Big Bear residents to review home surveillance video, starting at midnight Feb. 7 -- the day Dorner's burned-out pickup was found in the resort community.

12:22 P.M.: A vehicle is reported stolen from a home in Big Bear, near where Dorner's truck was found, by a man resembling Dorner. A couple who own the Mountain Vista Resort on Club View Drive on Wednesday evening tell media that they were tied up by the man before he stole their SUV. (Initially, it was reported that the two held captive were mother-daughter housekeepers.)

A massive police response ensues.

12:45 P.M.: A man driving near Camp Tahquitz sees someone resembling Dorner emerge from the woods by the site of a crashed vehicle. The person who looks like Dorner carjacks the driver, taking his truck but allowing him to get his dog out of the back.

Two state wildlife officers see a man resembling Dorner driving down Highway 38; a pursuit begins and gunfire is exchanged. The truck driven by the man resembling Dorner veers off the road and the man runs into the woods.

The pursuit quickly leads to a cabin in a collection of mountain rental homes in unincorporated Angelus Oaks on which authorities descend. Some 500 rounds of gunfire area exchanged and one sheriff's deputy is killed and another injured. A standoff begins.

4:15 P.M.: Authorities order the man to surrender, then shoot tear gas into the cabin. They use an armored vehicle to knock down the walls of the cabin, which is surrounded by law enforcement. A single gunshot is heard from inside before becomes the structure becomes engulfed in flames, an anonymous law enforcement official told NBC4.

11 P.M.: The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department states that it will attempt to identify remains found inside the cabin.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013:

Morning: Investigators work at the scene of the destroyed cabin, and authorities say it could take weeks for forensics tests to positively identify the remains found inside. LAPD officials say those named in Dorner's manifesto will continue to be protected until the remains are identified.

10:30 P.M.: A memorial service for slain Riverside Officer Crain draws some 8,000 mourners.

4 P.M.: Detective Jeremiah MacKay, 35, is identified as the man who was killed during a shootout in Big Bear with a gunman believed to be Dorner. San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon states that authorities "believe the investigation is over at this point." 

6 P.M.: A couple named Karen and Jim Reynolds hold a news conference describing being tied up and briefly held captive on Feb. 12 by a man they described as Dorner.

Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013:

3:45 P.M. The charred human remains located in the burned-out cabin are positively identified to be those of Christopher Dorner.

Friday, Feb. 15, 2013:

4 P.M.: Dorner died of a single gunshot wound to the head that was likely inflicted, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deparment authorities report at a news confernce. They say his remains were found in the basement of the cabin. McMahon defends burning of cabin, saying the blaze wasn't intentionally set.

The bulk of the approximately $1 million reward offered during the manhunt for a murderous ex-police officer will go to a couple held captive by Christopher Dorner in the hours before he died in a fiery exchange with law enforcement, the LAPD announced Tuesday.

Two other parties – a tow-truck driver who spotted the fugitive at a Corona gas station, and a ski resort worker who found Dorner’s burned-out truck in Big Bear Lake – will also receive a portion of the reward.

Twelve parties filed claims on the reward.

Among the rejected claimants are a man who claims to have predicted Dorner’s demise in detail, a woman who had a “vision” of a storage facility that may have belonged to Dorner but did not tell police, and a man who let officers use his cellphone after a deadly shootout with Dorner in Riverside.

Tuesday's ruling eliminates Rick Heltebrake, who was carjacked by Dorner, from receiving any reward money because although his phone call tipped agents to Dorner, law enforcement had already spotted and engaged in gunfire with the fugitive in Heltebrake's pickup truck, the memorandum notes.

Heltebrake in April said he intended to sue the city to get the money.

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Held captive by Dorner in their Big Bear cabin, Karen and James Reynolds will receive 80 percent of the reward.

The couple stumbled upon Dorner on Feb. 12. A former Navy reservist who served tours overseas, Dorner methodically tied up the pair, telling them he’s knows they’ve seen him on the news and that he does not want to hurt them.

He then left cabin and, according to law enforcement, commandeered the couple’s Nissan sport utility vehicle. Dorner later crashed the Nissan and carjacked a white pickup truck, authorities said. A shootout, standoff and inferno inside a separate cabin followed the double car thefts.

After about 15 minutes in captivity, Karen Reynolds was able to roll onto her knees, scoot over to the bed and get onto her feet. She hopped into the living room, where she noticed her cellphone was on the coffee table, which she used to call 911. Agents found Dorner 30 minutes later.

Unlike the other parties who laid claim to the reward, the Reynoldses were deemed “instrumental” in finding Dorner.

Daniel McGowan, who will receive 15 percent of the reward pot, was driving to work along an unpaved fire road in Big Bear Lake on Feb. 7 when he came across Dorner’s burning truck.

That discovery, the memorandum notes, gave law enforcement vital information that pinpointed Dorner’s location in the mountain community, where they zeroed in.

“Had Mr. McGowan failed to contact authorities in a timely fashion, Dorner would have had a chance to flee the area,” the memorandum reads.

A tow-truck driver whose sighting of Dorner resulted in a police pursuit and two police shootouts with the fugitive will receive the remaining 5 percent of the reward money.

R. Lee McDaniel spotted Dorner at an AM/PM gas station in Corona early in the morning on Feb. 7.

Remembering a news article describing Dorner’s truck as a gray Nissan Titan, McDaniel returned to his tow truck and used its scanners to read the license plate on a similar truck parked in the lot.

The men made eye contact before McDaniel drove away, followed by Dorner. As McDaniel started to call police, he saw an LAPD squad car pull into the gas station he just left. McDaniel drove across the media to tell officers who he had just seen.

A subsequent police pursuit of Dorner led to two shootouts, one of which left Riverside Police Officer Michael Crain dead and his partner critically hurt.

McDaniel’s role in the manhunt, although minimal, “confirmed Dorner’s presence in Southern California … specifically, his presence east of Los Angeles in the Inland Empire,” making his worthy of a portion of the reward, the memorandum noted.

A panel of three judges doled out the reward money based on whether the claimant contacted police with information that helped the investigation and whether that information led to Dorner’s capture.

The City of Riverside and the Peace Officers Research Association of California pulled their portions of the reward money -- $100,000 and $50,000 respectively -- saying their pledges were contingent on the capture and conviction of Dorner, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a burning cabin.

For the purpose of determining the reward recipients, “there is no requirement that a conviction have resulted, which of course would be impossible in view of the fact that Dorner is dead,” the memorandum stated.

The panel deemed Dorner was “constructively arrested or captured” when agents surrounded the cabin in which he was hiding on Feb. 12.

Dorner killed a newly engaged couple, including the daughter of a former LAPD captain, on Feb. 3 before slaying a Riverside police officer on Feb. 10, and a San Bernardino County Sheriff's detective on Feb. 13.

In a manifesto posted on online, Dorner said his ramapage would end when the LAPD cleared his name after he was fired from the force in 2008. He was accused of falsely accusing  fellow officer of kicking a suspect.

A gun once owned by rogue ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, who killed four people and led authorities on a massive manhunt in February, has sold at auction for more than $4,000.

Without its association with a now-notorious killer, the firearm was worth between $200 and $300, according to the seller.

North Las Vegas pawn shop Bargain Pawn had posted the .38 mm Astra 960 revolver for sale on gunbroker.com on April 9 in a move that was criticized by law enforcement.

The sale closed on Tuesday with a top bid of $4,025. The gun was sold "as is" but was described as being "fully functional."

"We were surprised that it went for that," said shop general manager David Bramlett told NBC4. "It's good."

Dorner was killed by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a firefight and subsequent fire at a Big Bear-area mountain cabin on Feb. 12 following a vendetta-fueled shooting spree. The former Los Angeles Police Department officer had been spotted in surveillance video at the North Las Vegas store about a month before his death.

A description on the auction page had described Dorner as a "coward and murderer," and notes that Bargain Pawn turned over to investigators the surveillance video of the sale of the gun.

The gun was sold to the pawn shop on Jan. 15, according to the auction page. Bramlett said he had personally bought the gun from Dorner, who was a previous customer at the shop.

"I really didn't want the gun because it is a cheaper gun," Bramlett recalled. "I offered him $50. He was polite, cordial, professional."

Bramlett said he wanted the proceeds from the sale to be donated to families of a Riverside police officer and San Bernardino County sheriff's detective that Dorner killed. But Bramlett was aware that San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Cindy Bachman had said money associated with Dorner would not be accepted.

"It would be best if they would accept the money," Bramlett said of the families. "If not, we'll look for a chartiable donation."

Bramlett said the money may go to a homeless shelter.

He said he could not divulge information about the buyer for privacy reasons.
 

A scout ranger who was carjacked by an ex-LAPD officer wanted in a series of revenge killings is seeking some of the more than $1 million reward money offered for information leading to the ex-officer’s arrest.

Rick Heltebrake filed a claim against the city of Los Angeles on Feb. 19, according to the Los Angeles City Clerk’s Office.

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He’s seeking reward money that the city announced it was offering for information leading to the capture of Christopher Dorner.

Dorner was accused of killing four people — including two police officers — in a rampage over his 2008 firing from the Los Angeles Police Department.

In an online manifesto, Dorner vowed revenge against several former LAPD colleagues whom he blamed for ending his career. He was fired after he allegedly falsified a report about an officer involved in a use of force incident.

Dorner took his own life while he was hiding out in a cabin on Feb. 15.

Heltebrake was carjacked by Dorner on Feb. 12 as Dorner tried to elude police in the San Bernardino Mountain ski resort area of Big Bear. The 61-year-old ranger at Camp Tahquitz said that a man resembling Dorner approached him with a rifle and demanded his pickup truck.

Heltebrake complied and called 911.

Heltebrake claims he is owed at least part of the $1.2 million because his call led authorities to Dorner.

Neither he nor his attorney were available for comment.

Numerous local, state and federal entities are involved in determining the distribution of the reward, said Peter Sanders, a spokesman for LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

"As you can imagine, this is a complex process and one that is often lengthy," he said.

Audio of the 911 call a Big Bear couple placed Feb. 12 after being tied up by disgruntled ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner was released Tuesday, KPCC reported.

In the partially redacted recording, Karen Reynolds tells a police dispatcher that Dorner entered a condo and held them up at gunpoint before tying them up and taking off in their truck.

"We were tied up by Dorner," Reynolds said during the 21 minute phone call.

Reynolds, who managed to use her cellphone while tied up to call 911, said Dorner had been armed with a rifle that had a silencer.

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Minutes after Dorner departed, Karen Reynolds freed herself enough to get to her cellphone, calling 911 in speaker mode with her hands still bound.

She told the operator she believed Dorner had been holed up in her condo just across from the manhunt's command center during much of the search.

"I'm pretty sure he's been here the whole time," Reynolds said.

"You guys are just across from the command center?" the operator said, sounding surprised.

The couple stayed on the call while they waited for deputies. Karen Reynolds at one point falls over and groans in pain.

Dorner was an ex-LAPD police officer and former United States Navy reservist who was charged in connection with a series of shooting attacks on police officers and their families from between February 3 and 12.

Four people were killed in the shootings, including two police officers and three police officers were wounded.

Dorner was the subject of one of the largest manhunts in LAPD history that spanned two states and Mexico before he shot himself while holed up in an unoccupied cabin in Big Bear during a standoff with police.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced a list of procedures for those seeking the reward money offered during the manhunt for rogue ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.

After multiple claims had been made for the money,  the counties, cities and private donors who proposed rewards will now determine who should be paid for the information that led to Dorner’s capture.

All those who want some of the reward will have to submit a written claim by April 19 that details why they deserve the money, the LAPD announced Friday in a news release.

Claims had already been filed by a man who was carjacked by Dorner and a couple who was held captive by the fugitive during the massive manhunt for him.

All funds that were offered will be placed into a trust fund account.

The fund will include reward money offered by the city of Irvine, city of Los Angeles, Riverside County, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, First Watch Corporation, the Los Angeles Dodgers, University of Southern California and other private donors, according to the release.

Law enforcement agencies will collaborate in reviewing the claims, and those invited to participate include: the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the sheriff's departments of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, and the Corona, Irvine, LA and Riverside police departments.

The day after the deadline, officials will hand off the reward claims and any additional investigation information to a panel of three former federal judges, who will decide whether they want to hear directly from the applicants after they read the claims, according to the criteria.

The panel -- which includes two former judges from the U.S. District Court and one former judge from the California Supreme Court -- will decide if any of the applicants’ claims are worthy of the money and how that money will be dispersed.

Anyone who wishes to claim the reward money will have to submit the claim according to this detailed list of procedures: Reward Money Criteria

Dorner was accused of killing four people -- including two police officers -- in a rampage over his 2008 firing from the Los Angeles Police Department. He died inside a burning cabin while cornered in a shootout with deputies near Big Bear in February.

Thousands of patrons filed into a Riverside eatery Friday when all the restaurant's proceeds were donated to the families of two police officers who were attacked by a former LAPD officer who went on a murderous rampage last month.

Officer Michael Crain, 34, was killed in the early morning attack on Feb. 7. His partner, Officer Andrew Tachias, 27, was injured. The pair was on duty, stopped at a red light when Christopher Dorner "ambushed" their squad car, authorities said.

Some 2,000 patrons ate at Original Roadhouse Grill (pictured below), garnering about $25,000 – 100 percent of the sales – to benefit Tachias and Crain’s family.

"It’s beautiful," said Regina Crain, widow. "To see the love that comes out of this community for a fallen officer is beautiful."

An 11-year veteran of the force and devoted father, Michael Crain is survived by his wife, son and daughter. Crain’s children were 10 and 4 respectively at the time of his death.

Tachias is "in good spirits" and is recovering, Crain said.

"He’s doing well," she added.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday said it remained "committed" to doling out the $1.2 million reward offered during the manhunt for rogue ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, one day after the city of Riverside pulled its $100,000 pledge.

The city of Riverside announced it is withdrawing its $100,000 pledge offered during the frantic manhunt that left four people, including Riverside police officer Michael Crain, dead.

Representatives for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which donated an undisclosed amount to the reward pot, said the organization does not believe the criteria for the reward was met, but is waiting on more information from LAPD to make a final decision on the reward.

Dorner died from an apparent suicide while cornered in a burning cabin near Big Bear last month. The city of Riverside cited this as its reason to rescind its $100,000, which was contingent on Dorner's arrest and conviction.

Angelenos urged LAPD to keep its promise during Tuesday’s police commission meeting.

"I need to know that my LAPD is good for its word," a citizen said.

Twenty-seven organizations and businesses contributed to the reward, offered while Dorner carried out a revenge-motivated killing spree in what he called an attempt to clear his name after being fired from the force.

The FBI and Staples Center owner Anschutz Entertainment Group are among the donors. Neither entity would comment Tuesday on whether their pledges were still intact.

The city of Irvine, where a former LAPD captain's daughter and her fiancé were killed by Dorner, said on Tuesday their pledge of $100,000 remains. And Riverside County's $100,000, separate from the $1.2 million reward pot, is still posted.

Police Chief Charlie Beck said the department is working with those entities to decide who will receive the reward.

"We’ll be able to dispatch what reward remains and I know that the mayor is committed and so am I," Beck said.

Two claims have been made on the money – one by a couple held captive by Dorner and the other by a man who was carjacked by the fugitive.

Both incidents happened in the hours leading up to Dorner's final standoff, and both parties called authorities to report encountering a man who looked like Dorner.

The rogue ex-officer meticulously bound Karen and Jim Reynolds in their Big Bear cabin before stealing their car.

"Karen Reynolds freed herself in a matter of minutes after Mr. Dorner left the cabin and called 911 and really did that even though she was creating a much greater risk to her," said Kirk Hallam, the attorney for the Reynoldses.

LA City Councilmember and former LAPD officer Dennis Zine said LA cannot back out on its $100,000 pledge, on a technicality.

"Clearly we made the commitment. We need to live up to our commitment," Zine said. "The commitment was we’re going to give a reward and we’re going to do that."

CORRECTION: NBC4 erroneously reported that the Los Angeles Police Protective League was pulling its reward pledge. Eric Rose, president of the union, said the organization does not believe at this time that the criteria was met but is waiting for more information from LAPD before making a decision about its pledge.

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The couple who were held captive in their Big Bear cabin under ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner’s control during a county-wide manhunt is making a claim on a reward pot that totals $1.2 million.

A claims letter written on behalf of Jim and Karen Reynolds by their attorney, Kirk Hallam, was sent March 7 to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which contributed $100,000 of the total reward of $1.2 million.

"Only the information provided to law enforcement by the Reynolds, and not by any other citizen, caused Mr. Dorner to be captured (i.e. corned with no escape) and killed (apparently in an act of suicide)," Hallam wrote in the letter.

The couple had come upon Dorner -- the subject of an extensive manhunt after he killed an Irvine couple, a Riverside police officer and shot at several other officers -- in their Big Bear condo on Feb. 12.

Dorner tied them up, then stole the couple’s vehicle and drove away from the property. After Dorner left, Karen Reynolds rolled onto her knees and hopped into the living room, where she used her cell phone to call 911 and report their experience with Dorner.

The letter requests the county's entire $100,000 reward and claims that the Reynolds couple has satisfied all legal conditions for receiving the reward.

"No one else is entitled to a share of the reward," the letter states.

Initially, NBC4 could not reach the Reynolds' attorney at the time of publication. However, one day later, Hallam said that in addition to the letter sent to the Board of Supervisors, he has also submitted a separate letter on behalf of the Reynolds couple seeking the $1 million reward from the City of Los Angeles.

A spokeswoman for the office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, which is monitoring the total $1.2 million reward pot, would not comment on receipt of any letters related to the reward from the Reynoldses.

“We are overseeing the reward as a whole, but it involves more than 30 separate entities and organizations who all have to collaborate and work together to determine the reward,” said Vicki Curry, senior press secretary for Villaraigosa.

Law enforcement officers from all agencies involved in the nearly weeklong manhunt will gather to read reports, listen to tapes and come to a consensus by mid-April, Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese said Thursday.

Before reward claims are considered, law enforcement must complete all investigations involved with the Dorner manhunt, Curry said.

“It’s going to take some time,” Curry said. “This [case] is pretty unusual.”

Scout ranger Rick Heltebrake, who was carjacked by Dorner on a Big Bear-area road, filed a claim to the city of Los Angeles on Feb. 19, according to the City Clerk’s Office.

“Mr. Heltebrake’s telephone call to Deputy Franklin notified law enforcement of Mr. Dorner’s location, provided a description of the vehicle he was fleeing in, and was a substantial factor in the capture of Mr. Dorner,” Allen L. Thomas, Heltebrake’s lawyer, wrote in the letter.

The letter on behalf of the Reynolds pointedly states that Heltebrake's call to authorites came after Karen Reynolds' and came only as a "hot pursuit" for Dorner was already under way.

Thomas submitted a claim for the $100,000 reward to the county Board of Supervisors on March 7 - the same day that the Reynoldses did so.

Both claims submitted to the county by Heltebrake and the Reynolds couple will be reviewed by a team of people in the Board of Supervisors office, said David Sommers, director of public affairs for LA County. The review team consists of representatives from legal, risk management and law enforcement.

“We have a very well used process for considering rewards,” Sommers said.

After the team reviews the reward claims, the funds can be divided among those who submitted letters, said Sommers, who added that the board has divided rewards in the past.

People seeking the $100,000 reward offered by the Board of Supervisors can submit written claims for the funds through July 12, 2013, according to the reward notice.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A $40,000 check was delivered to the office of an attorney for two newspaper delivery women whose pickup was shot up by Los Angeles police in a case of mistaken identity during the early hours of the weeklong Southern California manhunt for ex-officer Christopher Dorner.

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Emma Hernandez and daughter Margie Carranza were shot early Feb. 7 as they drove their Toyota Tacoma near the Torrance home of an officer named in Dorner's revenge plot manifesto. Officers providing protection because of the Dorner threat opened fire after mistaking the truck -- which police confirmed Tuesday had its headlights on and hazards lights flashing -- for Dorner's Nissan Titan, found later that day on fire in the mountains east of Los Angeles.

A $40,000 check (scroll down for image) from the City of Los Angeles was delivered Monday to the office of the women's attorney. The money is intended to cover the cost of the damaged pickup, which was pierced with 102 bullet holes, according to their attorney.

After the shooting in Torrance, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck apologized and announced plans to replace the damaged pickup, but the women refused after they were told they needed to fill out a 1099 form and pay income taxes for the donation, their attorney said last week.

The city attorney's office then reached an agreement to pay the $40,000. The agreement released both sides from liability for the property loss, and it allowed the truck to be used by the city as evidence until it's no longer needed.

The money will come out of the city's general fund.

Hernandez was shot in the back and still suffers from nerve pain, her attorney said.

 

The Los Angeles City Attorney's office has reached an agreement to pay two newspaper delivery women $40,000 for the loss of their truck, which was shot up by police in a case of mistaken identity during the search for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.

The Los Angeles Police Department had said it planned to replace the mother-daughter pair's truck, which was shot at more than 100 times while they delivered newspapers in Torrance, according to the women's attorney.

But the women were told they would need to pay income taxes on the value of the truck after a private donor got an involved — and 71-year-old Emma Hernandez and daughter Margie Carranza refused that offer.

Details on the "property agreement" with Hernandez and Carranza to compensate them for the truck were announced at a 3 p.m. press conference by LA City Attorney Carmen Trutanich's office. Both Trutanich and the women's attorney, Glen Jonas, were at the event at LA City Hall.

The attorneys said the women will get a check for $40,000 for the value of the truck, and they will not have to pay attorney's fees or income taxes on the amount. Jonas will not be compensated for his work related to the truck.

The agreement releases both sides from liability for the property loss, and it allows the truck to be used by the city as evidence until it's no longer needed. Then the seriously damaged truck will be returned to the women.

The money will come out of the city's general fund.

Trutanich said he believed the agreement was a "fair resolution." Earlier in the week, he had said he wanted to find a way to compensate them for the truck, calling it a "no-brainer."

"It's going to be handled competently, it's going to be handled appropriately and in the best interests of the city of Los Angeles," said Trutanich, who faces reelection on May 21, on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Trutanich's office is examining a demand letter over the shooting sent by Jonas. The letter asks for compensation related to the shooting beyond to the value of the truck.

"I don't understand how they survived," Jonas said last month. "They're grappling with a lot of issues — the fact that they were almost killed by the police."

On Thursday, he said he's hopeful that the city and his clients can come to an agreement — based on the ease with which compensation for the truck was worked out.

"I'm pleased to have it done; my clients are pleased to have it done. Everybody gets to move forward, put this incident as far as the donation was concerned, behind us, and get down to business," Jonas said.

"If we don't, we do what lawyers do. We go to trial," Jonas said during the news conference.

The women were shot at Feb. 7 when they drove their blue Toyota Tacoma in the dark, early morning hours toward the Torrance home of one of the police officials who was under protection because of threats in an angry manifesto posted online by Dorner, who was later killed after an extensive manhunt.

Hernandez was shot in the back and still suffers from nerve pain, Jonas said.

The Los Angeles city attorney is stepping in after the LAPD's plan to donate a truck to newspaper delivery women 71-year-old Emma Hernandez and her daughter, Margie Carranza, has proven to be unsuccessful.

Traveling in their pickup truck while delivering newspapers in a Torrance neighborhood, the pair was shot at by police during a frenzied manhunt for an ex-officer wanted in a revenge-motivated killing spree.

"It's going to be handled competently, it's going to be handled appropriately and in the best interests of the city of Los Angeles," said City Attorney Carmen Trutanich.

Trutanich on Wednesday was working with his staff to find a more efficient way to compensate the women for the loss of their Toyota Tacoma, which is now riddled, according to the women's attorney, with as many as 102 bullet holes.

"We may not get them an automobile, it may just be a check that will compensate them fully for their loss, without an admission of liability," Trutanich said.

Trutanich, who faces re-election on May 21, said he is personally working resolve the issue.

The women no longer want the truck after they were told they needed to fill out a 1099 form and pay income tax on the donation.

But the larger issue is the demand letter sent to his office by Glen Jonas, the women's attorney.

"I think he's done the right thing by sending us the demand letter, putting us on notice that there is a claim that's going to be filed," Trutanich said.

A lawsuit may not have to be filed if the two sides can come to an agreement.

While neither side would disclose the proposed settlement amount, Jonas did offer some perspective. He indicated the $25,000 in medical bills the women are now facing represents a very small portion of the total amount he is asking for in his demand letter.

He characterized the total proposed settlement amount as "very reasonable."

"It's a starting point for negotiation and as such, it's a very reasonable number in light of what happen to them and how their lives have been ruined," Jonas said.

The pair was driving a dark-colored pickup truck when they slowly approached the home of an officer named in ex-officer Christopher Dorner’s angry manifesto. Apparently thinking Dorner was inside, police opened fire on the truck.

After the shooting, Jonas said he was shocked by the officers’ actions. He said neither the size of the women nor the blue Toyota Tundra truck they were in matched the description of Dorner's Nissan Titan.

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The two newspaper delivery women who were shot at during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner will not be getting a new replacement truck as promised by the LAPD, according to their attorney Glen Jonas.

It has been more than a month since LAPD Chief Charlie Beck promised the truck to Emma Hernandez, 71, and her daughter, Margie Carranza, who had been working in Torrance, Calif. before dawn on Feb. 7.

UPDATE: City Attorney Vows to Help Get Compensation for Delivery Women

Police said it was a "case of mistaken identity" that prompted officers to open fire on the women. Beck later apologized and promised to replace their truck, now riddled with bullet holes.

According to Jonas, LAPD and Galpin Ford wanted his clients to pose for a photo opportunity and pay income tax on the truck. The women no longer want the truck after they were told they needed to fill out a 1099 form for the donation, Jonas said Monday.

"You tried to murder the woman, now you're telling her she can't have a four-wheel drive, you're telling her she can't sell it and you've got to be taxed on it?" Jonas said. "How would anyone react to that?"

Jonas plans on filing a government claim, which is a precursor to any lawsuit filed against a government agency. He said he felt the truck was being touted as a "reward or prize" instead of a sincere gesture by the LAPD.

Galpin Ford estimates the value of the truck – a 2013 Ford 150 SuperCrew – at $32,560. The dealership had planned on paying the sales tax, vehicle registration and title on the truck, according to a dealership spokesperson.

"It's really sad for us because we want to help these women move on with their lives, and help them move forward with that, we just can't get past the 1099 issue," LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. "The government has to take their bite out of it, I guess."

The women's Toyota Tacoma was pierced with 102 bullet holes from the Feb. 7 shooting, according to Jonas. Emma Hernandez is still recovering from two bullet wounds to her neck, which are giving her life-threatening complications, according to Jonas, who described what his clients went through that morning.

"The grandmother, Emma, starts saying, ‘God have mercy on us,’ because she thinks for sure they're going to die," Jonas said. "She then clutches around the back seat of her daughter to protect her from the gun shots because her daughter has children."

The pair was driving a dark-colored pickup truck when they slowly approached the home of an officer named in ex-officer Christopher Dorner’s angry manifesto. Apparently thinking Dorner was inside, police opened fire on the truck.

After the shooting, Jonas said he was shocked by the officers’ actions. He said neither the size of the women nor the blue Toyota Tundra truck they were in matched the description of Dorner's Nissan Titan.

Eight officers were involved in the shooting. They were assigned to non-field assignments "until the (police) chief decides otherwise."

Randal Quan stood strong as he took to the podium on Sunday to a standing-room only crowd gathered at a memorial service for his daughter and her fiancé, the first people killed by an ex-LAPD officer bent on revenge.

Quan said there is no rhyme or reason as to the senseless death of his daughter, Monica, 28, and Keith Lawrence, 27, who were planning on getting married later this year.

“It is not for me or anyone else to question why God has done what he has done,” Quan said at a service in the gym at Concordia University, the location where the couple went to school and fell in love.

Some 1,700 attended the service with an additional 600 people in an overflow room to watch the memorial on TV screens.

They shared a love for basketball.

Lawrence was a basketball player at the college. Monica Quan was an assistant basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton.

On a wall in the locker room at Concordia is a quote from Lawrence that his teammates draw inspiration from.

“Don’t take the game for granted. Enjoy every practice. Go as hard as you can, because you never know which play might be your last.”

Outside the service, a line of uniformed Irvine police officers stood at attention while an American flag hanging from a fire ladder truck blew overhead.

Randal Quan reminisced about the couple's courtship, saying his daughter teased her retired LAPD captain father not to check Lawrence's background.

He referred to his daughter as “ninue,” which means “little girl” in Chinese.

He said he felt safer knowing Lawrence was with Monica because Lawrence was also a USC campus police officer.

They had already had chosen their bridal party for their scheduled December wedding.

Instead, they were shot in an Irvine condo parking structure on Feb. 3. Irvine police identified the killer as Dorner.

Dorner killed four people while leading authorities on an 11-day manhunt. He died when he shot himself while he was surrounded by police as he was holed up in a mountain cabin.

In an online manifesto police attribute to Dorner, the former officer threatened several of his former LAPD colleagues and their family members over his 2008 firing.

Exactly one month after the massive manhunt for ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner, time has not done much to heal the wounds of the two Torrance women caught in the crossfire as they delivered newspapers Feb. 7.

Glen Jonas, the attorney for 71-year-old Emma Hernandez and her daughter Maggie Carranza, paid a visit back to the neighborhood Thursday where the pair was mistakenly shot at by eight LAPD officers, who based on information received that morning, believed Dorner to be in the area.

The two women were in a blue Toyota pick-up truck police believed was similar to the one Dorner had been driving. Hernandez was shot in the back and has been in and out of the hospital since that morning, according to Jonas.

"I'm sorry to say that they're not doing well," said Jonas, who said he is working on an agreement with the LAPD. "They live in fear every day that they wake up and think they might get shot again."

There were 102 bullet holes in the truck, according to Jonas, who said the women still have not received a replacement truck promised by the LAPD.

"I guess there's some hiccups in the process of how you do such a donation," Jonas said.

Hernandez's family has been without a primary vehicle since the shooting, which has proven to be difficult for the family.

"They're under a major financial burden, because they're unable to work," said Jonas. "(Emma) is having a very rough time. She's got extreme fatigue, is having difficulty eating, walking, just doing anything," said Jonas. "Every day there's a concern that they're going to lose their grandmother and they're having a rough time with it."

The LAPD is continuing its internal investigation into the shooting. The officers involved are on non-field duties.

Two men who risked their lives to help Riverside police officers who had been shot by rogue ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner were honored Thursday by the inland city’s police chief.

After watching in horror as Dorner ambushed officers Michael Crain and Andrew Tachias, spraying their car with bullets as they sat at a stoplight, taxi driver Karam Kaoud rushed to the scene.

He found Crain already dead or dying, and Tachias unable to punch the buttons on the radio microphone that would allow him to call for help.

Kaoud held up the mike for Tachias and punched in the codes so the officer could rasp out his call.

At the same time, Jack Chilson was chasing after Dorner in his own car.

Imagine the scene, said Riverside Lt. Guy Toussaint, spokesman for the Riverside police department.

“You’re sitting at the stoplight minding your own business and a car pulls up and starts shooting over the hood of your car into a police car,” Toussaint said.

Instead of fleeing, however, Chilson began to chase after Dorner, risking his own life to help track down the gun-wielding driver, Touissant said. He then returned to help at the bloody scene.

On Thursday, Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz thanked Kaoud and Chilson for their heroic and selfless acts.

At a breakfast the chief holds annually to benefit a department charity, Diaz called the two to the podium, and presented them with plaques honoring their service. The breakfast was held at the Riverside Mission Inn.
 

A Riverside officer wounded in a shooting that involved a fired Los Angeles Police Department officer who was the subject of a Southern California manhunt is recovering at home after his release from a hospital.

Officer Andrew Tachias, 27, underwent surgery last week and faces a lengthy recovery, his sister said in an interview with KPCC. His partner, Officer Michael Crain, was killed in the Feb. 7 ambush shooting during the initial stages of the manhunt for ex-officer Christopher Dorner that ended about a week later with a deadly shootout and cabin fire near Big Bear.

Tachias and Crain, 34, were attacked by Dorner in what police described as an "ambush" early Feb. 7 at a Riverside stoplight. Earlier that morning, Dorner opened fire on two Los Angeles Police Department officers in Corona who were part of a security detail for subjects named in a manifesto that outlined the former officer's revenge plot.

A taxi cab driver who witnessed the shooting came to the officers' aid and used the squad car's radio to request assistance.

Patricia Tachias told KPCC that her brother suffered two broken arms and had one of his shoulders replaced. He hopes to return to duty, she added.

Tachias was sworn in with the Riverside Police Department about two months before the shooting. He previously worked with the Inglewood Police Department.

Tachias was born in West Covina and attended the University of California, Riverside, where he was a community service officer.



 

Los Angeles Police Department command staff are taking unprecedented steps to bolster confidence in an officer discipline system largely unknown outside the department until it was assailed in the Christopher Dorner manifesto, department officials have acknowledged.

The steps include a pledge to review additional officer dismissals and an outreach to correct "misinformation" about how the Board of Rights appeal process works.

Dorner was dismissed on grounds of having made a false accusation of excessive use of force against another officer.

He accused the department of bias and said his Board of Rights panel was unfair.

Dorner cited that as rationale for the vengence he sought against members of law enforcement and their families.

Authorities believe Dorner was the killer of four people during a 10-day period earlier this month.

The manhunt ended with Dorner's death during a final confrontation with law enforcement on February 12.

Last week, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced that attorney Gerald Chaleff, the department's special assistant for constitutional policing, would review Dorner's disciplinary proceedings and report to the police commission.

Beck said on Tuesday he would agree to review six more dismissals after the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents the LAPD's rank-and-file officers, said the former officers questioned the fairness of the proceedings.

"I'm always happy to see people looking at what we're doing, because I know that what we're doing is right," said LAPD Deputy Chief Mark Perez, the commanding officer of the department's Professional Standards Bureau, which oversees internal affairs and the disciplinary processes.

Department officials arranged for Perez to meet with reporters Wednesday to explain the disciplinary process and answer questions. Until recent years, Board of Rights hearings were open, but have been closed to public view since a 2006 court case dealing with personnel privacy rights.

LAPD internal affairs dates back to mid-century efforts to combat institutional corruption within the department, as well as City Hall.

Perez likened a Board of Rights hearing to a court-martial.

The deparment is represented by an advocate, and the accused officer is entitled to have a defender.

Witnesses may be called and evidence introduced.

The decision is made by a three member panel with membership chosen anew for each case, but always consisting of one civilian and two LAPD officials holding the rank of captain or higher.

The decision is then sent to the chief for final action, the chief having the authority to lessen the recommended punishment.

The hearings are conducted in rooms the city leases in downtown's landmark Bradbury Building.

During 2012, 49 cases resulted in 33 dismissals, and 12 suspensions or demotions, Perez said.

Discipline may be challenged in court, but rarely is overturned, according to attorneys who handle such cases.

Dorner was denied at both the Superior Court and Appellate Court level.

In 2010 a dismissed Central Division motor officer won reinstatement and a $2 million judgment, but the damage award was removed on the city's appeal.

Dorner's case arose within a month of his return to the department after a year-long call-up to active duty in the United States Navy, serving in the Middle East.

The call up came shortly after his police academy graduation, so Dorner still had fewer than 100 days experience and was still considered a probationary employee.

Records indicate Dorner acknowledged difficulty readjusting, and had requested re-integration training.

After a call to deal with an unruly man at a San Pedro hotel in July of 2007, Dorner went to a supervisor with the allegation that his training officer had committed a use of force -- kicking the suspect in the face -- but omitted the fact from the incident report.

The internal affairs investigation failed to substantiate the kick.

Instead, the department accused Dorner of making the story up.

The Board of Rights dismissal finding was adopted and carried out by then-Chief William Bratton.

Police Commissioner Richard Drooyan and others have raised concerns that whistleblowers may be discouraged from coming forward at the risk of being disciplined if their complaint cannot be proven to the satisfaction of internal affairs.

"I hope not," said Joe Buscaino, a 15-year LAPD veteran who now serves on the city council, representing San Pedro.

"I don't think you can let whistleblowers lie and abuse the system," said Bernard Parks, a former LAPD chief who serves on the city council representing South LA's Eighth District. "But the evidence has to stack up in that regard."

Parks noted that the Superior Court judge who reviewed the Dorner case, David Jaffe, said the written record made it difficult to determine whether or not the kick had occurred.

"If it's merely a 'he said, she said,' it's difficult to terminate on that kind of evidence," Parks said.

In years past, the Police Protective League has advocated an arbitration system for handling officer discipline. The League has not addressed the issue since the Dorner matter.

Parks believes the crucial elements are independence of the board combined with the chief ultimately being responsible for the final decision.

"You want to hold the chief accountable," Parks said.

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck called Tuesday morning for a "rational discussion" of the issues raised during a deadly manhunt for a fired officer who outlined a revenge plot against law enforcement agents and their families.

Beck spoke about the Christopher Dorner investigation and the reward connected to the Southern California manhunt at a Tuesday morning news conference.

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Beck was joined at the news conference by an LAPD sergeant and captain identified in former officer Christopher Dorner's manifesto. The LAPD members were under protection during the manhunt for Dorner, who outlined plans to target law enforcement officials and their families as part of the revenge plot that ended with a shootout near Big Bear.

"We all sign up for some degree of risk," Beck, whose name also appeared in the Dorner document, said at the news conference. "Our families don't sign up for that. Our children don't sign up for that. These 50 families we protected -- think about their children."

The news conference came one week after the manhunt ended at a cabin in the Big Bear area. Dorner died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a shootout with San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies, according to investigators.

Beck on Tuesday addressed the reopening of the investigation -- a move he announced during the nearly week-long search -- into Dorner's 2008 firing. The fired officer was found to have falsely reported a fellow officer for excessive use of force.

Then Chief William Bratton dismissed Dorner based on a police panel's finding Dorner had made a false excessive force report against his training officer.

"I'm very confident the board was run very well, that it was done by the rules," said LAPD Captain Phil Tingirides, who headed the panel.

His wife, Sgt. Emada Tingirides, worked Harbor Division with Dorner and recalled him asking her if racism was behind the misconduct charge against him.

"I told him flat out, 'Christopher, the complaint process is a process,'" Emada Tingirides said.

Dorner's appeals were rejected by both a superior court and an appellate court.

Chief Beck appointed attorney Gerald Chaleff to make another review and report to the LAPD Office of the Inspector General -- the body has oversight of the department's internal disciplinary process -- before it is released to the public at a police commission meeting, Beck said. The findings will be the subject of public comment so "everyone can see the transparency with which we address this," Beck said.

"Nothing should be considered closed and done," Beck said. "It's about fairness, and doing the right things for the right reasons."

Beck did not provide an estimate on the timeline for the review, but said the investigation will require at least "several months."

Beck also addressed the $1 million reward offered for information in the manhunt. The agencies -- about 30 -- involved in the reward will provide a recommendation to Beck.

"Not only is this reward the largest in local law enforcement history, it's also the most complicated," Beck said. "It is my desire that the reward money be used. We generated countless tips because of it. It had its desired effect."

The search for Dorner began when he was identified as the suspect in the  Feb. 3 shooting deaths in Irvine of Keith Lawrence and his fiancée Monica Quan. Four days later, Dorner shot and killed a Riverside police officer in what investigators described as an ambush at a stoplight during the manhunt.

Earlier Feb. 7, Dorner was involved in a shooting with LAPD officers in the Corona area. The officers were part of a security detail for one of the subjects mentioned in the Dorner manifesto.

Dorner's burned-out pickup was found near Big Bear later that morning. The search continued through the weekend before a stolen vehicle report led authorities to Dorner.

A San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy was killed outside the cabin from which Dorner engaged deputies in a shootout. The 33-year-old's charred remains were found after the cabin burned.

Beck opened Tuesday's news conference by reading the names of the four victims.

The ex-LAPD officer who died during a fiery gunfight while being pursued for a revenge-motivated killing spree garnered support online for his statements in a widely read manifesto.

But after Christopher Dorner’s death on Feb. 12, that support has been on display as posters of his image above the word "hope" have been plastered throughout Southland neighborhoods on utility boxes and billboards, including on a Girl Scouts cookies advertisement.

Signs of support for the rogue officer aren't just being posted; they're being inked.

A 23-year-old man, who only identified himself as Mark, elected to tattoo Dorner’s smiling face on his arm (pictured below). He said it's a symbol of standing up to what he called a corrupt system of law enforcement.

"I don't necessarily have much love for the LAPD myself, as I've had my share of altercations with them," he said.

"I guess you can say it was a form of rebellion."

More than 40 flyers posted in Riverside -- where a police officer was killed allegedly by Dorner -- have been taken down by city crews. The City of Los Angeles' Public Works Department said it will remove the signs, if they are reported.

Despite the apparent proliferation of support, many residents said regardless of Dorner's message, the man accused of killing innocent people should never be hailed a hero.

"There's absolutely no way to explain anything like that," said Andre Vlasov. "Hope? Hope for what? That there's going to be more people like that out there going around and killing other people? That's just insane."

Soon after police announced that Dorner was wanted in the slayings of a former police captain’s daughter and her fiancé in Irvine, several Facebook pages appeared in support of the fired LAPD officer who vowed to attack law enforcement agents and their families until the department cleared his name.

Police said Dorner went on to attack a pair of on-duty officers waiting at a red light in Riverside, killing Officer Michael Crain. Then, in his last standoff with authorities, Dorner fatally shot Detective Jeremiah MacKay during a gunfight in Big Bear, authorities said.

Two days after Dorner's remains were identified, a protest outside LAPD headquarters drew about two dozen demonstrators who said they "stand with Dorner."

Facebook pages and posts, tweets and street flyers appear to be motivated by an anti-police attitude that the ex-officer espouses in his manifesto.

In an 11,400-word manifesto published online, Dorner accused the LAPD of nurturing a culture of racism and demanded the department reopen the case into his 2008 firing from force, which came after Dorner reported a colleague for alleged brutality.

The former police officer died from a single gunshot wound to the head as authorities descended on him as he was barricaded inside a mountain cabin east of Los Angeles, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said.

Bullet holes in front doors, trees and a kitchen serve as reminders of the chaos brought to their Torrance neighborhood during a frantic manhunt for an ex-police officer bent on revenge killings.

Nine bullets pierced a tree on Redbeam Avenue where two newspaper delivery women were shot by police officers who had mistaken them for fugitive Christopher Dorner.

Margie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother, Emma Hernandez, were delivering the Los Angeles Times before dawn near the home of a police officer named in Dorner’s angry manifesto.

The shooting occurred Feb. 7 after officers were notified of a truck that matched the description of Dorner’s gray 2005 Nissan Titan. Hernandez suffered two bullet wounds to the back. She was released from the intensive care unit and was recovering. Carranza, 47, had minor injuries related to shattered glass and a wounded finger.

The women’s lawyer counted 102 bullet holes in their blue Toyota Tacoma and several more in Hernandez’s hoodie.

Weeks later, memories of the shooting were still evident, with five bullet holes piercing a home’s front door and more in walls and garages that lined the street.

"My guess is that they threw policy out the window and got in trouble," said resident Steve McDonald, whose solar panels sustained bullet damage. "They're lucky they didn't hit each other because there were bullets flying every which way."

NBC4 has learned that eight LAPD officers were involved in the shootout. All of them have been assigned to non-field assignments until "the (police) chief decides otherwise."

So far, their names have not been released and there has been no comment from the Los Angeles District Attorney about pressing charges.

An attorney for the women, Glen Jonas said he’ll let the investigation run its course.

"If the city wants to do it the easy way and get it resolved; if they want to do it the hard way, then we’ll file a lawsuit," he said.

Police said they cannot comment on on-going internal investigations.

But some residents, despite being so close to the gunfire, said they understand the officers’ actions.

"I think they have to be supported through this," said Joanne Arnn. "Yes, it's unfortunate, thank goodness no one here was fatally injured, but it's not a very safe world."

Arnn said that Torrance Police Department contacted each household on the block to learn if anyone was injuries and offered to pay for any damage to their homes.

About two blocks away and thirty minutes after the women were shot, a Redondo Beach man was fired upon by officers who also mistook him for the wanted Dorner.

Torrance police officials said two of the department's officers were involved in the second shooting. One of the officers fired three rounds and is on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.

Colleagues and family members remembered San Bernardino County Sheriff's detective Jeremiah MacKay Thursday as a devoted father and friend who "stood for good, against evil" and believed it was his duty to track down the subject of a manhunt in the moutains east of Los Angeles.  

They spoke at a memorial service for 35-year-old Jeremiah MacKay, killed Feb. 12 during the Southern California search that ended with a shootout at a cabin near Big Bear. The service began after a 20-mile procession to the San Manuel Amphitheater during which MacKay was saluted by firefighters on freeway overpasses and mourners lining the route.

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Patrol vehicles from throughout California parked in a lot at the amphitheater -- located in the hills of Glen Helen Regional Park in Devore -- and a line of law enforcement officers on horseback formed near the parking lot to honor their colleague. Mourners held signs, one of which read, "Det. MacKay: Hero," along the procession route and at the entrance to the amphitheater.

Pipe band members and sheep dogs -- MacKay was known as the "Sheep Dog Warrior" -- accompanied his casket. More than 100 pipe band members performed in front of a large flag of the United States after the casket arrived at the stage.

Near the end of the two-hour ceremony, just after doves were released into the air, the voice of a radio dispatcher came over the speakers.

"This is the last call for Detective Jeremiah Alan MacKay," the dispatcher said. "He gave of himself while serving his community with courage and valor. The men and women of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department are forever grateful and proud to have served with Detective MacKay and will never forget his ultimate sacrifice."

San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Roger Loftis, the best man at MacKay's wedding, spoke about MacKay's appreciation of fine whisky, cigars and life before explaining MacKay's "Sheep Dog Warrior" approach to law enforcement.

"He was the funniest guy I ever met," said Loftis, accompanied by two dogs on stage. "Everything he did, he did at volume 12 -- everyone else goes to 10.

"He believe the good, caring people were sheep that needed to be protected. There are evil people in the world, and they will feed on the flock without mercy. And, then there are the sheep dogs who live to protect the flock," Loftis said.

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Sheriff John McMahon, friends and family members also shared memories of MacKay, who is survived by his wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son.

At the end of the ceremony, McMahon gave the folded flag that was draped over MacKay's casket to his widow Lynette, exchanging private words with her and the couple's daughter.

MacKay grew up wanting to become a sheriff's deputy, McMahon said. He usually was not assigned to work weekends, but insisted on volunteering to search the Big Bear-area every day during the February manhunt, McMahon said.

"Jeremiah MacKay stood for good, against evil," McMahon said. "He made his uniform, his uniform did not make him. Many of (his wife's) best friends did not know Jeremiah was a deputy sheriff, unless you told them.

"He had the courage, tenacity and resolve to face anything. He remained because it was his duty of the citizens of San Bernardino County to stop an evil man."

MacKay -- one of two law enforcement officers killed during the nearly weeklong manhunt -- stayed home on the day before the deadly shootout near Big Bear. He spent the day with his daughter and son, McMahon said.

MacKay was born in San Bernardino and grew up in Lake Arrowhead, about 20 miles west of Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. His father was an engineer for the San Bernardino County Fire Department, and his mother volunteered at schools.

MacKay's father recalled the time he found his 4-year-old son on the peak of the family's roof.

"He was quite a character when he was a kid," Alan MacKay said. "He was fun-loving, and a kind, gentle soul. But we found out rather fast he was an adrenaline junkie. ... He wasn't bothered by heights. He wasn't bothered by anything."

MacKay continued the family's tradition of public service when he joined the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department as a member of Academy Class 131 after attending Rim of the World High School. MacKay graduated from trainee to deputy on his 21st birthday.

Colleagues said he was proud of his Scottish heritage and played a key role in the Honor Guard's bagpipe events. The department's Honor Guard selected MacKay to play bagpipes during funeral ceremonies for slain law enforcement officials, parades and other events.

MacKay was most recently assigned to the Yucaipa Sheriff's Station.

A member of the Irish Emerald Society, an association of U.S. police officers and firefighters, MacKay organized an annual fundraiser for slain officers. MacKay and Riverside Officer Michael Crain were celebrated at the most recent event, which had been organized before their manhunt shooting deaths, on Feb. 15.

"He was very much in touch with his Scottish heritage, and loved playing the bagpipes," McMahon said. "He had a distinctive laugh that came from deep inside him -- the laugh of someone who enjoyed life."

MacKay earned several promotions in the department, but his family was the most important part of his life, family members said. He met his wife, Lynette, on Thanksgiving Day in 2010 and the two were married one year later.

MacKay helped his step-daughter Kaitlyn with her karate techniques. His son, Cayden James, was born in October.

MacKay was shot and killed Feb. 12 as the search for fired LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, who outlined a revenge plot involving law enforcement officials and their families in a manifesto, led to a cabin in the mountains east of Los Angeles. MacKay was outside the cabin when he and another member of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department were struck by gunfire coming from inside the cabin.

Other deputies arrived and engaged Dorner in a shootout. The cabin burned and Dorner's charred remains were found inside. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to investigators, bringing to an end a shooting rampage that began Feb. 3 with the slaying of an Irvine couple.
 

A vigil was held Tuesday evening for Detective Jeremiah MacKay, who died last week in a gun battle with an ex-LAPD officer bent on revenge killings of police officials.

MacKay, 35, was a 15-year veteran of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. A husband and father of two young children, MacKay was shot and killed by Christopher Dorner on Feb. 12.

Rain and frigid temperatures did not stop hundreds of mourners from honoring the slain detective during a 6 p.m. outdoor candelight vigil at Yucaipa Community Center.

"He was very loved, always energetic. He's going to be very missed," said Debbie Marshall, nurse at the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

MacKay's funeral will be held Thursday morning at San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore.

Accomodations are available for mourners attending the funeral, donated by gracious hotel owners and anonymous supporters.

The owner of Crest Lodge is offering free cabins MacKay's family, friends and colleagues. Some rooms at the Hilton Hotel in San Bernardino have been donated to MacKay's loved ones for free. Rooms at the San Bernardino Hilton and the Best Western in Rancho Cucamonga are $69 per night, a nearly 50 percent discount.

MacKay was celebrated Feb. 15, along with a Riverside police Officer Michael Crain, who was also killed by Dorner. The event last Friday was at an annual fundraiser organized by MacKay to raise money for the Fallen Officers Memorial Fund. The event had been scheduled before MacKay was killed.

MacKay was the Sheriff's Department's official bagpiper and, in that role, he often performed at officers' funerals.

MacKay is survived by his wife, a 7-year-old daughter and a 4-month-old son.

On a Facebook page created in his memory, his sister Angie MacKay Reynolds thanked the more than 14,000 fans, many of whom posted comments about the detective.

"I have always been so proud of my brother and loved him beyond words, he was my best friend, my hero and my protector since the day I was born," she wrote Tuesday.

An LAPD police captain whom Chief Charlie Beck described as one of Christopher Dorner's "primary targets" on Tuesday described feeling overwhelmed during the six-day manhunt for the ex-officer who went on a shooting rampage earlier this month.

Capt. Phil Tingirides was named in the ex-Los Angeles Police Department 11,400-word manifesto and was one of dozens of officers provided a protection detail during the search for Dorner. He and his wife, also an LAPD official, volunteered to share their story after many media requests to speak to officers who were protected, Beck said.

"These 50-plus families that we protected, think about their children," Beck urged during a news conference Tuesday. "They’ll be impacted by this forever."

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Tingirides and his wife of two years, LAPD Sgt. Emada Tingirides, said they felt fearful as they hurried to unite with their "blended family" of six children after learning on Feb. 6 that Capt. Tingirides was a target of Dorner.

The news came just a few days after Dorner killed of Monica Quan, daughter of a former LAPD captain, and her fiancé Keith Lawrence in Irvine, where the Tingirides live.

"When you get a phone call and they tell you that someone is after your family, and within a very short distance of your home, they've already killed somebody else's daughter – it made me sick to my stomach. I was very overwhelmed," Capt. Tingirides said.

"We get threats all the time, but rarely do you get threats that are so specific and that somebody's already carried out in the most cowardly way."

Sgt. Tingirides recounted being in the field in the East Los Angeles area when she received a call from her husband telling her to get home or to the LAPD's 77th Street Division.

"He called me and there was this fear in his voice," she said. "Driving back from downtown Los Angeles to South Los Angeles … with this fear and panic and anxiety in my soul was a drive I will never forget."

She said she was "in disbelief" that her husband was a target of Dorner, who's accused of killing four people in a revenge-fueled shooting spree before dying in a mountain cabin that was engulfed in flames on Feb. 12.

Capt. Tingirides sat on the board that reviewed and made a recommendation for Dorner's firing from LAPD in 2008, which apparently prompted the ex-officer to target law enforcement.

Capt. Tingirides has led the Southeast Area station for the past six years, out of 33-year career with the LAPD; Sgt. Tingirides has been with the department for 18 years and is now in charge of a community policing program in public housing developments.

The couple, married for two years, said they have a "blended family" of six children aged 10 to 24.
Those children were the focus as the family remained mostly in their Irvine home while the hunt for Christopher Dorner continued.

"After the first day, we shut the TV off … the information coming in was kind of overwhelming for the kids, and we could see the fear growing," Capt. Tingirides said.

The family played board games and watched movies, he said, and tried to sensitively field questions from their children about the level of threat they all faced.

The couple, meanwhile, would "go in the garage in cry," Sgt. Tingirides said.

But they also left the house -- trying to give a sense of "normalcy" to their children -- with a mixture of anxiety and pride, she said.

They praised the LA and Irvine police officers who protected them, saying Sgt. Tingirides often woke at night to look down on the officers in their yard.

Sgt. Tingirides, who is black, said she had never experience racism within the LAPD, and she repudiated Dorner's claims that the department had not changed since scandals in the 1990s.

Capt. Tingirides said the experience of being threatened would help him be a better police officer in the crime-plagued southeast Los Angeles area that he serves.

"It does give me a sense of real fear that the community that I serve faces daily," he said. "That will allow me to do my job even better."
 

Ex-LAPD officer-turned-fugitive Christopher Dorner, who went on a deadly shooting rampage and then died after a shootout and fire last week, first tried to charm fishermen in San Diego’s Driscoll Wharf into giving him a ride to Mexico, sources told NBC 7.

Dorner, 33, led authorities on a massive manhunt after police said he killed an Irvine couple and a Riverside police officer in a crime spree across Southern California that began Feb. 3.

Dorner's crimes were part of a revenge-filled plot he outlined in an online manifesto targeting law enforcement officers and their families, authorities said.

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Authorities searched for Dorner all over Southern California -- from Irvine to National City -- and led extensive checkpoints at the San Ysidro border, believing Dorner was trying to flee into Mexico.

Fishermen at Driscoll Wharf told NBC 7 exclusively that Dorner was on the pier near Nimitz and Harbor Island Drive on Feb. 5 trying to charm his way into a boat ride to Mexico.

“He kept saying he wanted to go fishing off Mexico. I said ‘Mexico? That’s kinda weird. You could go fishing on the bay,’” said Jeremy Smith, a commercial fisherman.

Smith spoke exclusively with NBC 7 on Saturday night.

Smith and others at the dock said Dorner was willing to pay $200 to $400 for someone to take him out to sea. He told the fishermen he was going to be deployed to Afghanistan and just wanted to go fishing in Mexico first.

But at this pier, far away from popular fishing charters, most people were making repairs on their boats, not ready to go to sea.

Smith offered to show him around a luxury yacht that was for sale docked at the pier. But he asked him to remove the military style boots Dorner was wearing to keep the white carpeting clean. Dorner declined.

"Maybe he had a gun," Smith guessed. "Usually people want to see inside."

Dorner's request for a ride surprised some local fishermen, including Roy Sherman.

“I’ve been down here for 40 years and he’s the first guy that came down here and asked for a ride,” said Sherman.

San Diego Police Lt. Andra Brown said she was not aware of this particular Dorner sighting in San Diego.

“We’re not going to discuss details of an ongoing investigation,” Brown said, and referred questions about the incident to the Irvine Police Department.

Several other law enforcement sources - not in the San Diego Police Department - confirmed the man described by fishermen was likely Dorner.

Dorner did spend time in San Diego between Feb. 4 and Feb. 6.

A surveillance video taken behind an auto parts store in National City on Feb. 4 shows Dorner tossing bullets, a uniform and other items that linked him to the Irvine double-homicide into a dumpster.

After spending an hour at the pier the next day, the fishermen said Dorner left, but returned with fish tacos for Smith, hoping that would convince the fisherman to help him find a charter.

The witnesses reported Dorner was very friendly, always with a smile on his face, calling himself "Mike."

The man who called himself "Mike" told Smith a story about a friend who was having problems with the police and said his friend had been fired.

"I think he was talking about himself, now that I think about it," added Smith.

Dorner eventually left peacefully without his ride to Mexico, the group of fisherman said.

Driscoll Wharf is adjacent to Naval Base San Diego on North Harbor drive.

Smith said Dorner returned to the wharf on Feb. 6 but still couldn't find anyone to take him to Mexican waters.

That same day, a man fitting Dorner’s description tried to steal a boat from a San Diego marina, according to officials. An 81-year-old man on the boat was tied up but uninjured. The would-be boat thief was unable to steal the boat and fled.

Later that night, police issued Dorner's description, and the fishermen said they notified authorities of their encounter.

Fishermen on Pier 6 at Driscoll Wharf were amazed the man who brought them fish tacos on Feb. 5 was the dangerous fugitive accused of fatally shooting four people, including a police officer and a sheriff’s deputy.

The 10-day manhunt for Dorner ended on Feb. 12.

After barricading himself in a Big Bear-area cabin, he died of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials said. The cabin burned during a shootout between Dorner and deputies, and the fugitive's charred remains were later found inside.

Minutes after a man in a dark pickup truck shot at LAPD officers in Corona, cab driver Karam Kaoud stopped at a red light nearby in Riverside.

He thought little of the shooting when the same truck pulled up next to him and rolled through the light.

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Kaoud wasn't even very startled when the man in the truck shot something at the patrol car stopped at the light across the street.

He thought it was a paintball gun.

"The sound was silent like barely you hear it," he said.

But the patrol car didn't follow the truck, and instead rolled forward, slowly.

“When he reached the middle of the intersection, at this moment I realize it was a real gun and a real shooting."

Kaoud jumped out of his cab, ran to the driver's side of the patrol car and got out a simple question to the driver.

“What, what should I do?

"I never face something like this and he told me, 'Grab the radio for me.'”

He grabbed the radio and and started to call for help.

The driver was Andrew Tachias, the passenger, his training officer, Michael Crain.

The two had been together for only three weeks. Crain was unconscious.

Tachias struggled to mutter "officer down" into the radio.

"He said, ‘I'm losing my breath.’”

Kaoud, who has a family of his own, wondered if the shooter was finished.

"I was worried about him to come back and start to shoot."

Kaoud is glad he stayed. And he's glad the shooter is no longer a threat.
But he wonders, how could things have turned out differently?

"It's over but there is an officer who died who has family. The kids at home looking for their dad and no dad now."
 

Three days after alleged murderer Christopher Dorner was killed at a mountain cabin east of Los Angeles, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department officials said the former police officer had died of a single gunshot wound to the head. 

The former Los Angeles Police Department officer, whose alleged revenge-fueled shooting spree is thought to have caused the deaths of four people, died during a shootout and the burning down of a cabin in which he was barricaded Tuesday near Big Bear.

On Thursday afternoon, the sheriff's department positively identified the charred human remains found in the cabin as Dorner's. Officials said dental records were used during an autopsy to identify to the body, which was found in the cabin's basement.

At a news conference Friday, sheriff's Capt. Kevin Lacey said the autopsy showed Dorner's cause of death to be a single gunshot wound to the head. He said he would not speak about the "manner of death."

"The information we have right now seems to indicate that the wound that took Christopher Dorner's life was self-inflicted," Lacey said.

At the media event, Sheriff John McMahon stood by earlier statements that deputies had not intentionally set fire to the cabin where the standoff occurred.

He responded to questions about a recording from the scene of the firefight that seemed to indicate a desire on the part of officials to intentionally burn the cabin down. He said the department was trying to figure out who made the statement, and suggested it was someone "away from the tactical team."

"Our deputy sheriffs and the other officers that were present are human beings," McMahon said. "They had just been involved in probably one of the most fierce firefights. And sometimes, because we’re humans, we say things that may or may not be appropriate. We will look into this and we will deal with it appropriately."

Related: Dorner's Arsenal | Timeline: Revenge-Plot Slayings | Read: Full Manifesto | Map: Dorner Manhunt

McMahon also addressed questions about how it was possible for Dorner to hide out in a condominium complex in Big Bear just a few hundred yards from the manhunt command post. He said deputies had knocked on the condo complex's door and found it locked.

Seeing no signs of forced entry, they marked the property as searched, said McMahon, pictured at right. Authorities later learned that the couple who owned the property had left it unlocked and that Dorner had entered then locked the door behind him.

"My instructions were that … if it was secure and there were no signs of forced entry, we were not going to kick down the doors of several cabins or hundreds of cabins during that search," McMahon said.

When the condo owners entered the property Tuesday, Dorner allegedly tied them up and then stole their car. They were able to escape and alert authorities, who began the fast-paced search for Dorner.

After ditching the stolen car, the suspect then carjacked another driver. Dorner was soon spotted by a state wildlife officer who exchanged gunfire with the suspect on a mountain roadway.

Dorner fled on foot into the woods, eventually barricading himself in the cabin in the unincorporated Seven Oaks area on the other side of the mountains from Big Bear.

Deputies who responded were immediately fired upon, and two men went down. Capt. Detective Jeremiah MacKay was killed and another county deputy sheriff was seriously injured.

"Our officers had not even pulled their guns out at that point," McMahon said. "They were ambushed by Christopher Dorner."

Other responding officers were pinned down by gunfire from the cabin, Capt. Gregg Herbert said.

"Every time they tried to move, Dorner was shooting at them," Herbert said.

Eventually, the cabin was surrounded and authorities shot "cold gas" into the structure to try to get Dorner out, Herbert said. When there was "no movement," the team fired a pyrotechnic chemical agent into the structure to get the suspect out, he said.

"He did not surrender," Herbert said.

Part of a collection of aged vacation rental structures, the cabin caught on fire. Then authorities heard the sound of what they believe may have been Dorner killing himself.

"When about a quarter of the cabin was on fire, we heard a distinct single gunshot come from inside the house, which was a much different sounding shot from the shots he had been shooting at us, which to me indicated a different type of weapon was fired," Herbert said.

The cabin burned to the ground. Dorner's remains were removed and were in the county morgue Friday, officials said.

A cache of weapons found -- including a .308-caliber bolt action rifle with the word "Vengeance" on the butt, as shown above -- was being held as evidence.

McMahon said the "investigation is over as far as San Bernardino County is concerned," later adding that he didn't believe "we’ve made any mistakes at this point."

He said the department still does not know why Dorner ended up in Big Bear.

The search for Dorner began when he became the suspect in the fatal Feb. 3 shooting in Irvine of Keith Lawrence and his fiancée Monica Quan. An assistant basketball coach at California State University Fullerton, Quan was the daughter of a former LAPD captain who was targeted by Dorner in an 11,400-word angry manifesto that police said he published online.

In court documents obtained by NBC4, Irvine police Detective Alex Kim states in an affidavit (PDF) that Dorner is thought to have researched Quan and Keith before killing them. He is suspected of firing on the couple – found in their car in a parking garage – with so many 9 mm rounds that police believed he used a high-capacity magazine.

Two days after their deaths, Irvine police spoke with LAPD officials about Dorner, learning that Quan's father had represented the ex-officer during his disciplinary hearings and appeal of his 2008 firing.

"We also learned that Dorner appeared to harbor a grudge about losing his job as a police officer," Detective Jonathan Sampson wrote in a statement of probable cause.

Irvine police were in touch with LAPD after police in National City, southeast of San Diego, had found in a trash container police uniforms with a name badge for Officer Dorner, a high-capacity magazine and other gear.

National City police contacted the LAPD, where officials who were aware of the Irvine homicide investigation told them to get in touch with Irvine detectives.

Friends and colleagues of Detective Jeremiah MacKay and Officer Michael Crain raised their glasses Friday night for the husbands and fathers killed allegedly by a fugitive former police officer at the heart of a massive manhunt.

"To Jeremiah MacKay and Michael Crain!" cheered the crowd gathered in Corona.

Usually lead by 35-year-old MacKay, the Great Guinness Toast instead honored the 15-year veteran of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. The salute drew more than 500 people (pictured below), with many more outside of the venue.

MacKay died Tuesday after a shootout in Big Bear during the manhunt. Remembered for a "great sense of humor," MacKay is survived by his wife and two children -- a 7-year-old daughter and a 4-month-old son.

An 11-year veteran of the Riverside Police Department, Crain was killed in an "ambush" on Feb. 7 allegedly by the same disgruntled ex-officer suspected of shooting MacKay. He is survived by his wife, 10-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter.

The Irish Emerald Society’s annual event supports the Fallen Officers Memorial Fund, a project that friends say MacKay was passionate about.

It was scheduled before he died in a gunfight with Christopher Dorner, wanted in connection with a revenge-fueled shooting spree that targeted law enforcement agents and their families.

"Jeremiah initiated that event as a fundraiser for our society and he was very passionate about raising money for families of fallen officers," Deputy Ken Jamieson told NBC4 this week. "So, it is ironic."

On Friday, Jamieson said the night's event "is appropriately raising funds for both" of the slain men.

MacKay was the department’s official bagpipe player, Jamieson said. He often performed at the funerals of fallen officers.

Posted on YouTube Wednesday night, this video shows MacKay playing bagpipes during a 2009 Emerald Society St. Patrick's Day celebration.

A cache of weapons and military gear was found after a gunfight and a fire at a mountain cabin ended in the death of an ex-police officer wanted in connection with a revenge-motivated killing spree, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

Authorities on Friday showed off a table holding several weapons in "the same style" as those found on Christopher Dorner’s body and inside the Big Bear-area cabin where his charred remains were discovered.

These items turned up in the investigation into Dorner’s alleged rampage, said Sgt. Trevis Newport with the sheriff’s homicide division:

• Military-style bulletproof helmet
• .308 caliber bolt-action sniper rifle
• 10 suppressors, aka silencers
• High-capacity magazines
• Canisters of tear gas and smoke
• Tactical vest with high-capacity rifle magazines and tear gas canisters

Written on the rifle's handle (pictured below) was the word "vengeance." Authorities said that the rifle on display belonged to Dorner.

A former Navy reservist, Dorner became the subject of a massive manhunt after he allegedly penned a manifesto which laid out plans for a revenge plot targeting law enforcement agents and their families.

The search for Dorner turned on Feb. 7 to Big Bear -- a mountain community east of Los Angeles -- after his burned-out truck was found in the area.

Dorner died from a single gunshot wound to the head on Tuesday during a shootout and the burning down of a cabin in which he was barricaded, officials said. It appeared to be self-inflicted.

Before barricading himself inside the cabin, Dorner is suspected of commandeering two vehicles, apparently in an attempt to elude pursuing officers. Some of the weapons listed above, Newport said, were found in those vehicles.

Related: Photos of Dorner's Arsenal | Timeline: Revenge-Plot Slayings | Read: Full Manifesto | Map: Dorner Manhunt

Police in Irvine filed a warrant last week to search the home of the mother of alleged murderer and ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner. That house was his last known residence, and the document clears up the early timeline of the manhunt for the killers of newly engaged couple Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence in Irvine.

The search warrant notes there were two clues left at the crime scene: shell casings and a beanie. Police were preparing to retrieve DNA from Dorner but it was clear they had no idea where to find him.

A warrant was also served at the Palo Alto offices of Facebook, the social media site on which Dorner had posted his manifesto. The company was ordered to save all information including Dorner’s list of Facebook friends. One of those friends named in the warrant was Jason Young, a restaurant manager in Nevada.

Dorner had a home in Las Vegas. According to the court documents, Young showed police pictures of firearms, weapons sights and silencers which he said the former LAPD officer planned to sell.

Another warrant was served at the Dallas offices of Backpage.com. Detectives say it’s a website used by people trying to conceal sales of weapons or drugs.

Two days after the Irvine murders, police in National City, Calif., discovered surveillance video taken in an alley behind an auto parts store. The video was turned over to detectives who then called LAPD to return police uniforms, duty gear, high capacity magazines and a badge, all found in a dumpster behind that auto parts store and thrown away by Dorner, based on the video.

The 22-page warrant goes on to say when authorities searched the La Palma home Dorner shared with his family, it was his sister who gave them cell phone numbers and email addresses for her missing brother.

But perhaps the most haunting insight was the fact that police believed Dorner had conducted background on his intended targets, that he may have kept journals, maps and photographs of both Lawrence and the entire Quan family.