[Updated at 7:41 p.m. ET] San Berardino County Sheriff John McMahon says he can't positively confirm that a body found yesterday after a massive manhunt in California is that of murder suspect Christopher Dorner, but investigators believe the body is his, and the search is over.
"We’re not currently involved in a manhunt,” McMahon told reporters at a news conference Thursday.
The county coroner's division is working to positively identify the body, which authorities recovered from a cabin after officers stormed it following a shootout Wednesday afternoon in the San Bernardino National Forest.
McMahon also said that officers did not intentionally set the cabin on fire. McMahon said officers toward the end of the standoff fired pyrotechnic tear gas canisters into the structure, which then caught fire, but the fire "was not on purpose."
"We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out," McMahon said.
[Updated at 11:14 a.m. ET] Los Angeles police will not "speculate at this point" whether the body found after a massive manhunt in California is murder suspect Christopher Jordan Dorner, Police Lt. Andy Neiman told reporters Wednesday.
[Posted at 11:08 a.m. ET] The murder investigation targeting Christopher Jordan Dorner continues, but the Los Angeles Police Department has returned to a normal state of operations since Tuesday night, police spokesman said.
That's when police stormed a cabin where Dorner is thought to have died. Dorner is an ex-LA cop who vowed to kill police officers to avenge what he called an unfair termination.
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The body is burned beyond recognition, but we found his drivers license. It was fireproof.
makes sense to me, we don't known if it's him but the hunt is over.
I guess I have my answer, the police set the fire and burned him to death. Toward the end of the standoff, just wonder if Dorner knew it was the "end" of the stand off? How long is a stand off last? Live by the sword die by fire?
Glad they got him. Tired of people sympathizing with someone out to kill because they were allegedly wrongly fired. So now everytime someone is fired, we have to worry they're gonna go around shooting people? and get sympathy?
it's not the first time someone has killed after being fired.
dang...lapd fired this guy twice...
OK, that was funny. Once they fired the tear gas, his goose was cooked
Notice how nobody is saying anything about the criteria used to hire police officers? And you probably never will, either.
The truly ironic thing is several days ago the LAPD said they found his wallet with his license near some boats. Did they just leave it there for him to retrieve later??? Sounds like they dont know fact from fiction.
Somebody else burned, probably still running.
Thats exactly what i think too @ Jeff Frank. And at this point im having some doubts that he ever murdered anyone either!
Watching Anderson right now. Wish he would ask, or check out the following. I believe I heard yesterday that the police(or someone) had found his billfold either in a vehicle or somewhere else, prior to his entering the cabin that burned. Most folks carry their drivers license in their wallet. I then that needs to be checked out if I'm right about what I heard on CNN yesterday. I also heard that someone had been "forced back into the cabin" after the fire had started. I know both statement were made. Just wondering??????
@ Dan Jones, i also heard that about the billfold with his license and it was on the first day. They found it near some boats at a marina they said. Thats the trouble with lies if you tell too many you tend to forget the first ones.
I don't know. he is doing nothing more than leaving a trail of breadcrumbs.by the time they discovered the wallet, he was probably in Mexico smoking dope.
At least Dorner Rock LAPD. Yes it is not right to kill anyone but this is the only way he can shake the dept.
Life is Cause and Effect. Now he can rock these people in spirit.
UNBLEIVEABLE!!! That ANYONE could have sympathy for this guy! As soon as he started "MURDERING" other human beings he lost any sympathy one could give! Now, with that said, YES, there are MANY questions that need to be answered. The LAPD has a less than stellar history of problems. AND, what is this garbage that "we will investigate ourselves"? YEAH, RIGHT, and if we find anything wrong, WE, will let you know! I have not heard about this wallet story, but, that would be a MAJOR, question for me! If accurate HOW would a wallet, his, be found at a marina, YET, turn up at the cabin? And did you see the "briefing"? What a joke! They KNEW that many questions would be asked, AND, I can understand the usual reply, "we can't comment about an ongoing investigation" but they really didn't answer anything! Is it because they need to get their stories straight? Come up with a viable, excuse, as to why they burned the cabin to the ground? Wonder how much it cost the taxpayer to have ALL these "chiefs" from different counties/cities show up, just to say NOTHING? For me, this one, NEEDS "outside" investigation to get alot of answers!
Hes dead