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| FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows fugitive former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner. Officials say the burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as Dorner's. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 that the identification was made through Dorner’s dental records. |
SAN BERNARDINO,
Calif. (AP) -- Authorities say fugitive former cop Christopher
Dorner died of a single gunshot wound to the head as authorities were
pumping tear gas into a mountain cabin during a deadly gun battle with
sheriff's deputies.
San Bernardino County sheriff's Capt. Sheriff John McMahon told reporters Friday that it appears the wound was self-inflicted.
Deputies said they heard one final gunshot from the cabin as it was going up in flames during Tuesday's gunbattle.
Before he died, Dorner killed one sheriff's deputy and wounded another during a fierce shootout.
Authorities
initially were unsure whether Dorner killed himself, had been struck by
a deputy's bullet or had died in a fire that engulfed the cabin during
the shootout.
