There was more than one exchange of gunfire between the police and Dorner on that mountain. Dorner held a maid and another resort worker captive in one cabin until the maid escaped and called 911, reporting Dorner's location and that he had stolen one of their cars (a purple Nissan.) San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputies spotted the car and the first exchange ensued as Dorner fled.
Dorner then crashed that car and a short distacne down the road, confronted the man who owned the white pick-up truck. At gunpoint, Dorner ordered the man (along with his dog) to get out of the truck and start walking. He reported, he did as he was told and 10 - 15 seconds after Dorner left in the truck, the man heard a second exchange of gunfire, which resulted in the shooting of two San Bernardino Deputy Sheriffs being shot. Both Deputies were air lifted to a local hospital, where one later died, marking the fourth individual Dorner killed throughout the ordeal.
After shooting these Deputies, Dorner barricaded himself in the cabin nearby. Eventually, officers heard one gunshot and immediately after saw smoke and flames coming from the building, followed by many more shots as ammunition began to go off due to the fire. Whether the fire was ignited by Dorner, rounds of ammunition, police gunfire, tear gas, whatever - is beside the point. Dorner never had any intention of surrendering, he sealed his OWN fate.
BTW - there is another fact you can surely count on. It won't be long before others who 'know for sure' will come crawling out of the woodwork with their own stories and conspiracy theories, etc. -regardless of what they are told. Some will even believe Dorner escaped the fire and is already somewhere sipping pina coladas. Don't worry, you won't have to wait long.
That's not what I've heard, and besides it makes no sense.
The facts so far are that he was inside the cabin, there was a single gunshot inside the cabin and then the cabin caught fire. Because the cops outside didn't know whether Dorner was still a threat or not they couldn't have the fire department come and put out the fire so the cabin burned to the ground.
If your version was true - Dorner tried to exit the cabin - he would have been shot by any number of officers that were surrounding the cabin.
Dorner wasn't that stupid. My guess is he either ran out of ammo or was mortally wounded, so he used his last bullet on himself.
Whether or not Dorner had been shot or shot himself is irrelevant. He posed a clear and present danger to the police. They were more than justified in drawing their weapons and firing. There was no indication that Dorner was trying to surrender.
He could have turned himself in. After all, he thought he was in the right so why not turn yourself in to the police and prove it.
He killed several people, out of revenge. You think that's OK? I sure don't. By dying in the fire, lots of money and heartache were spared. (no trial) You know nothing for a fact, unless you were right there on the scene.
HE IS NOT A HERO BUT A STONE COLD KILLER!
sounds very likely
over a hundred cops versus one man. Now there's an example of heroic courage
I don't as there was a gun battle between him and police ,and to be honest who cares about a murderer anyway, its less taxes to worry about and in my eyes it was "just cause" to violent scum & saves the tax payer money for the cost of the trial,lethal injection and upkeep of another prisoner.
One thing in your question is absolutely certain:
You do NOT know that for a fact.
can you prove your fact
of course they did it was always inevitable that when they got him he would not be allowed to live
just you.
for those who hadn't saw a suspect tried to exit the back of the cabin but was pushed back inside, i can't understand how is it that he didn't put up a fight to keep from being pushed back inside, I know for a fact they set fire to that cabin to kill him for revenge.
