UPDATE:
Continuing coverage of the intense manhunt for an ex-cop in California as investigators are trying to confirm if the body found inside a burning cabin is Christopher Dorner.
Dorner is accused of going on a revenge killing spree last week.
Bagpipes played as the flag-draped coffin carrying Riverside police officer
Michael Crain entered the church.
Hundreds of police officers from across Southern California attended the funeral. Police say former Los Angeles officer and Navy reservist Christopher Dorner shot and killed Crain in an ambush last week.
“I really didn't realize the sheer scope of this and how many people are touched by his life,” sobbed Crain’s wife, Regina Crain.
Police believe Dorner was the man they found inside a charred cabin near Big Bear, but they have not confirmed it. Until that happens, police will continue to provide security for some of the officers and families that Dorner threatened to kill.
The weeklong search for Dorner possibly ended with an intense shootout at the cabin.
CBS reporter Carter Evans was in the middle of it.
Then, a single gunshot came from inside the cabin, and it went up in flames. It is not clear how the fire started.
Tourists and residents in this mountain resort town are waiting for the remains in the cabin to be officially identified. But many here say they already feel relieved.
“Very glad that he's taken care of because he was killing people,” stated Restaurant Owner Cathy Berens.
Dorner is accused of killing four people, and injuring at least 2 others since last week.
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The latest information from Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the San Bernadino Sheriff's Office all say that the home is still too hot to enter.
For that reason, they do not know if a body was found inside the home. Which means they are unsure if Dorner has been killed or not.
We will continue to update this information as it becomes available.
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Below is the latest information on the shootout with Christopher Dorner. To watch the latest video, click here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57569072/fugitive-ex-lapd-cops-body-recovered-from-burned-cabin/Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer who was suspected of killing four people, and was the subject of an intense manhunt, has died after being barricaded in a cabin that was later engulfed in flames, CBS News has learned from a law enforcement source.
CBS senior correspondent John Miller reported that Dorner's body was recovered from the burned cabin in Big Bear, California.
The cabin in which Dorner was believed to be holed up in San Bernardino County, east of L.A, is in flames, CBS Station KCAL Los Angeles had reported. It followed after an earlier shootout Tuesday afternoon between the suspect and authorities that left one deputy killed and another wounded.
A law enforcement official, who wished to remain anonymous because the investigation is ongoing, told The Associated Press that the person believed to be the suspect never came out of the burning cabin.
CBS News correspondent Carter Evans, reported that tear gas was fired into the house, which was surrounded by authorities, before the fire broke out.
Dorner attracted a dragnet and a $1 million bounty on his head after three murders. Officials say he was targeting cops and their families in a rampage of revenge for his firing.
As KCAL reported, Dorner reportedly broke into a couple's home and tied them up -- possibly days ago -- before stealing their vehicle and fleeing the scene Tuesday afternoon. He was spotted by authorities around 1:30 p.m. and repeated gunshots were exchanged on Glass Road.
One of those gun battles was recorded by Evans, who was at the scene. A transcript of that audio as Evans reported follows:
"I hear some screaming. You heard all that gunfire. I see a team of sheriffs deputies in full-on fatigues running towards us right now. We are down on the ground behind the fields of our car right now with the doors open. I'm talking to you on speakerphone. We are right, right in the center of the action here. We are right where this is happening."
Evans later told "CBS Evening News" anchor Scott Pelley that the SWAT team had the cabin surrounded where Dorner is located at the moment and has been moving into position for the last hour or so. "We haven't heard a volley of gunfire like you heard there in the last hour or so," said Evans. "What we have heard are police officers firing tear gas into that building. They've also been laying down suppressive fire to keep Dorner from firing back at them while they've been moving officers into position."
Evans also reported that there are two police helicopters circling overhead, keeping an eye on things from the sky. On the ground, things seemed to have calmed down a bit as authorities seem to have moved into place.
As for whether there is anybody else with Dorner inside the cabin or if there are hostages, Evans said that is nothing at the moment to indicate that. "We have heard reports that may at one point have been someone inside that cabin with him but I've not been able to confirm that with the authorities. at least authorities standing around me right now think Christopher Dorner is the only one in that cabin."
According to KCAL, reporters in the vicinity were asked by the San Bernardino District Attorney's Office to abstain from tweeting about the developing situation.
Police say Dorner's rampage began a week and a half ago when a couple was murdered in Irvine, California. One of the victims was the daughter of a retired police captain who had defended Dorner in a disciplinary hearing that led to his firing by the LAPD police spotted Dorner early last Thursday but he escaped after allegedly shooting two Los Angeles cops.
He's also accused of ambushing two riverside policemen, killing one of them.
Investigators found Dorner's truck in the mountains northeast of L.A.
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, who once headed up the major crimes division of the L.A.P.D. reported that there was some kind of confrontation Tuesday that involved a truck that, based on video, was kind of almost rammed into a snow bank and buried in the snow. that confrontation then spilled over with de deputies.
"It appears that Dorner may have been in that house for some time," said Miller. "Ironically, strangely or surprisingly, that house is located almost just across the street from the police command post where they've been running the search operation for a number of days, and not far from where his burned-out pickup truck was found."
According to Miller, the weapon Dorner is using is a sniper rifle -- a 50 caliber Barrett, an extraordinarily high-powered rifle, the kind used by the military. The SWAT resources on the scene from San Bernardino County have the house surrounded. Other armored vehicles and SWAT personnel are on the way from the city to assist if San Bernardino needs them.
Dorner was fired from the LAPD five years ago, when a department board determined that he falsely claimed another officer had kicked a suspect.
Asked about recent decision to reopen the case into Dorner's past with the LAPD, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, former head of the Major Crimes Division of the LAPD, had earlier said on "CBS This Morning" the police may be testing Dorner.
"Dorner's manifesto says, 'I need to get my reputation back, and I didn't lie, and I shouldn't have been fired. But if I get justice, the killing stops,'" Miller said Tuesday. "I think if the department takes a step of, 'We'll take a second look at the case, if he is a man of his word, then the killing has to stop.' "
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LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith Tuesday urged triple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner to turn himself in as a gun battle and barricade situation between the quadruple-murder suspect and authorities raged on in San Bernardino County.
“Enough is enough. It’s time to turn yourself in. End the bloodshed,” Smith said, adding that Dorner, who allegedly shot and killed his fourth victim — a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy — Tuesday afternoon, is holed up in a Seven Oaks cabin.
Dormer is also accused of shooting a second deputy, who was airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center. Smith, who says Dorner likely has access to television and other media outlets, requested that media helicopters pull out of the area.
The San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office also asked that reporters in the area to refrain from tweeting about the ongoing situation.
Dorner reportedly broke into a couple’s home and tied them up — possibly days ago — before stealing their vehicle and fleeing the scene Tuesday afternoon.
He was spotted by authorities around 1:30 p.m. and repeated gunshots were exchanged on Glass Road. KCAL9′s Carter Evans, who was reporting nearby, is safe despite loud gunfire that could be heard during his live report.
Dorner then fled into a forested area and barricaded himself in a cabin. A SWAT team was also called in to set up a perimeter around the area.
The earlier incident at a home in the 1200 block of Club View Road, which is located near Highway 38 and Glass Road, was reported at 12:22 p.m. One of the victims was able to escape and alert authorities, who later recovered a rifle and possibly a can of gas.
“The reporting party said the suspect took their vehicle and described the suspect as looking very similar to Dorner,” a Sheriff’s Public Affairs spokesperson said in a statement.
Dorner was then spotted driving a 2008 four-door, white Dodge 4X4 truck, which is registered to nearby Camp Tahquitz.
Highway 38, as well as all roads in and out of Big Bear, have been shut down.
Bear Valley Unified School District confirms all four of its schools — Big Bear High School, Chautauqua High School, Baldwin Lane Elementary School and Fallsvale Elementary School — have been locked down and an evacuation center has been set up.
Authorities had recently reduced the number of law enforcement officers patrolling the Big Bear area from several hundred to just 30.
Dorner, 33, is accused in the revenge killings of 28-year-old Monica Quan and her 27-year-old fiancé, Keith Lawrence, in Irvine on Feb. 3.
He was employed as a Los Angeles police officer from 2005 to 2008, when he was fired for making false allegations against a fellow officer. Quan’s father, a former LAPD Captain, represented Dorner in the hearing that ultimately lead to his dismissal from the force. Dorner was named as a suspect in the deaths of Quan and Lawrence on Feb. 6.
He’s also wanted in the ambush murder of Riverside police officer Michael Crain, who was shot to death in his patrol car on Feb. 7. Crain’s partner was also critically injured.
Dorner’s burned out truck was found near Bear Mountain later that day.
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A gun battle is underway at Big Bear, California. Police believe they have located a heavily armed, Christopher Dorner.
Dorner, a former LAPD officer has been on the run since last week when he allegedly shot and killed three people, including a police officer.
Authorities have been searching the Big Bear area since his burned out truck was located there. A mass gunfight has been underway during the last hour. Dorner has barricaded himself in a cabin.
Officials say someone in the Big Bear Lake area reported a stolen car on Tuesday and described the suspect as very similar to Christopher Dorner. The vehicle was found and the person ran into the forest and barricaded himself in a cabin.
Dorner threatened warfare against the LAPD. He is seeking revenge for being fired in 2008.
Two law enforcement officers are being airlifted to a local hospital with unknown injuries.
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