Autopsy confirms Dorner’s suicide

Former officer shot himself in the head with a 9- millimeter pistol in the basement of a burning cabin.

Trapped and surrounded in a cabin in Big Be a rat the end of an exhaustive and violent search, former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner shot himself in the basement as the building burned above him, an autopsy report confirmed Friday.

Dorner was onthe runfor more than a week, during which he killed four people, including two on- duty law enforcement officers, and wounded several others.

The gist of the autopsy report — issued roughly 18 months after the bloody search ended in bullets, explosions and flames — had already been widely reported, but it did offer some new details.

Dorner, 33, used a 9- millimeter handgun to shoot himself once in the head on the afternoon of Feb. 12, 2013, as the wooden cabin above him became engulfed in flames.

A Riverside County medical examiner had to use dental records and Dorner’s dental retainer to confirm his identity because his body was so badly burned. Dorner’s arms below the elbows and right foot had been burned off, the report stated.

According to the coroner’s investigative report, Dorner had $ 150 in cash, a folding knife, a lighter, his LAPD and military IDs and his driver’s license on him when he died.

He also had a fake police badge and a business card with the names of two LAPD police captains who oversaw his Board of Rights hearing with their addresses and names of their wives written on it.

He was wearing tan camouflage pants and had a white necklace with a handcuff key attached, according to the report.

The showdown at the cabin brought an end to a massive 10- day search that began after he killed an LAPD captain’s daughter and her fiance Feb. 3 and posted an online manifesto stating that he intended to hunt down police officers.

Dorner avoided detection for days in a condominium as hundreds of law enforcement personnel scoured the region.

He eventually tried to escape the Big Bear area in a stolen car but was spotted, prompting him to hole up in the vacant cabin.

During the hours- long standoff, Dorner unleashed a barrage of gunfire on officers who surrounded the building.

In response, authorities lobbed pyrotechnic gas inside, sparking a fire. As flames engulfed the cabin, Dorner turned his gun on himself.

Mark Boster Los Angeles Times A CERAMIC angel is placed near the cabin in Angelus Oaks where Christopher Dorner died. His badly burned body was identified through dental records.