Cop deny setting blaze on cabin in manhunt
(02-14 11:19)
US police have denied deliberately setting fire to a mountain cabin where a former Los Angeles policeman and murder suspect is thought to have died, saying they faced a "warzone-like" shootout after a six-day manhunt.
Christopher Dorner, the 33-year-old former officer accused of killing four people, was believed dead, although experts have not yet positively identified the remains found in the burnt-out cabin, RTHK reports.
He became the subject of intense debate on social media during the week he spent on the run, after posting a chilling online manifesto threatening to kill police he blamed for his 2008 sacking, but also alleging unfair treatment.
The manhunt came to a climax Tuesday in a cabin near the snow-covered ski resort of Big Bear, two hours east of Los Angeles, where he died after a gunfight with SWAT marksmen.
He was earlier spotted with a stolen vehicle.
Dramatic video footage emerged of officers surrounding the cabin where the suspect had barricaded himself, with a barrage of gunfire audible, including some possibly from exploding ammunition as fire took hold of the cabin.
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