Former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner went on a killing spree in the Los Angeles area for the past week, but it appears the terror is over as a burned body was found in the cabin he was hiding out in.
According to CBSNews.com, the body in the cabin has yet to be identified, but it is likely the remains of Dorner as his driver's license was found with the body. Dorner was holed up in the cabin for over a day after killing multiple people, including Cal State Fullerton coach Monica Quan and her fiancé Keith Lawrence in a condo parking lot.
"We have reason to believe that it is him," San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cynthia Bachman said.
The 33-year-old fugitive was in a shootout with police on Tuesday and a man believed to be Dorner ran from where he was hiding into another cabin before the building caught on fire and consumed the entire area. No one emerged from the ruins of the cabin and the body is believed to be Dorner.
The police posted a $1 million reward to bring him in, while a number of cops and their families were put on alert after a manifesto mentioned revenge against people who wronged him. There were reports that Dorner took two people hostage and he previously killed a police officer after ambushing him in Los Angeles.
Two more officers were wounded on Tuesday by Dorner and one died after getting medical treatment. The cabin standoff was finished out by SWAT teams, and an official told the Associated Press that after the team surrounding the cabin, they called for him to surrender and pumped gas inside to try to draw him out.
A single shot was heard inside before the cabin was engulfed in flames, according to the official.
Dorner wrote on his Facebook page that he seeked revenge for injustice done to him by the department and he got his revenge on LAPD Capt. Randal Quan, who previously represented him in a police disciplinary board hearing that fired him for filing a false report. Quan's daughter was the Cal State Fullerton coach.
Dorner claimed that racism played a part in his firing and said that he would take out his anger on the people that wronged him.
"You're going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!" the rant said. "You have awoken a sleeping giant."
People in Los Angeles were on alert for days but it appears now that the manhunt and the spree are over.
According to the Daily Mail, Quan's father is a former LAPD captain and the two recently moved into the apartment where the car had been parked when they were killed. The couple that was murdered met as undergraduates at Concordia while playing at the university's basketball team. The new condo complex reportedly has apartments that sell up to $1 million.