TORONTO – Authorities in Southern California are waiting for the results of forensic tests to confirm the manhunt for a revenge-seeking ex-cop is over.
The tests will determine whether a body found in a burned-out mountain cabin in the Big Bear Lake area is that of Christopher Dorner.
Authorities say the cabin somehow caught fire after Dorner got into a shootout with police, killing one on Tuesday.
Dorner, 33, had said in a lengthy rant police believe he posted on Facebook that he expected to die in one final, violent confrontation with police, and if it was him in the cabin that’s just what happened.
Global News takes a look at key events in the manhunt for Christopher Dorner (all times approximate):
Sunday, Feb. 3: An assistant women’s college basketball coach and her fiance are found shot to death in their car in Irvine, Calif. Police learn later the woman was the daughter of a retired Los Angeles police captain who represented Dorner in disciplinary hearings that resulted in his dismissal from the force.
Monday, Feb. 4: Some of Dorner’s belongings, including police equipment, are found in a trash bin in suburban San Diego, linking him to Irvine killings.
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Wednesday, Feb. 6: Police announce finding Dorner’s manifesto online.
10:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6: A man matching Dorner’s description makes a failed attempt to steal a boat from a San Diego marina. An 81-year-old man on the vessel is tied up but otherwise unharmed.
1:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: LAPD officers, protecting a person named in the manifesto, chase a vehicle they believe is Dorner’s. One officer is grazed in the forehead by a bullet during a shootout, and the gunman flees.
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A short time later, a shooter believed to be Dorner ambushes two Riverside police officers during a routine patrol. One officer is killed, and the other critically injured.
2:20 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: A shuttle bus driver turns in a wallet with an LAPD badge and a picture ID of Dorner to San Diego police. The wallet was found fewer than five miles from the boat, near San Diego International Airport.
5 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: LAPD officers guarding a manifesto target in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance open fire on a truck they mistakenly believe to be Dorner’s. A mother and daughter delivering the newspaper are injured.
A short time later, Torrance police are involved in a second shooting involving a different truck they also mistake for Dorner’s. Nobody is hurt.
8:35 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: Police find a burned-out pickup truck near the Big Bear ski area in the San Bernardino Mountains. Six hours later, authorities identify it as Dorner’s.
9:40 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego is locked down after a Navy worker reports seeing someone who resembles Dorner. Military officials later said Dorner had indeed checked into a hotel on base earlier in the week – on Tuesday – but had left on Wednesday.
4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: Authorities search a Las Vegas-area home belonging to Dorner and leave with several boxes of items. They say no weapons were found but decline to disclose what was discovered.
Friday, Feb. 8: Dozens of searchers hunt for Dorner in the freezing, snowy San Bernardino Mountains after losing his footprints near the site where the truck was found. Authorities search Dorner’s mother’s house in La Palma and collect 10 bags of evidence and also take five electronic items for examination. Police also search a storage locker in Buena Park.
Saturday, Feb. 9: Helicopters equipped with heat-seeking technology resume search for Dorner in the mountains near Big Bear. Authorities reveal that weapons and camping gear were found in Dorner’s burned truck.
VIDEO: Christopher Dorner manhunt continues (Feb. 9)
Sunday, Feb. 10: Authorities announce $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner’s arrest.
Monday, Feb. 11: Riverside County prosecutors charge Dorner with murdering a police officer and the attempted murder of three other officers in a potential death penalty case. Authorities receive more than 700 tips since the reward was announced.
IN PHOTOS: Christopher Dorner manhunt
Thursday, Feb. 12: A person believed to be Dorner exchanges gunfire with Southern California authorities in the San Bernardino Mountains. Authorities say the
individual engaged in a shootout that killed a deputy and then never emerged as
the home went up in flames.
A single gunshot was
later heard from within.
Hours later, a charred body was found in the basement of the burned cabin along with a wallet and personal items, including a California driver’s license with the name Christopher Dorner, an official briefed on the investigation tells The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
VIDEO: Manhunt for fugitive ex-L.A. cop (Feb. 12)
Friday, Feb. 13: Authorities believe the remains are those of the former Los Angeles police officer, but they have not been formally identified.
At a press conference, LAPD Lt. Andrew Neiman says the department has returned to normal patrol operations. He said approximately a dozen of the more than 50 protective details remain in place and will stay that way until the remains are positively identified. “This really is not a celebration,” he said. Neiman would not answer any questions regarding what occurred in San Bernardino County, saying it was that jurisdiction’s investigation.
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