San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon provides an update in the search for the ex-LAPD officer wanted in the revenge slayings of three people, saying police plan to search abandoned cabins in Big Bear Lake, Calif., to "make sure he didn't find a place to hide out for the night."
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
Updated at 1:12 p.m. ET: Dozens of police officers were going door-to-door on a snowy California mountain, searching abandoned cabins for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, suspected of killing three people in a revenge-fueled rampage he mapped out in an online manifesto.
"It's extremely dangerous," San Bernadino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a Friday news conference after more than 100 cops spent a tense night patrolling Big Bear, where Dorner's burned-out truck was found a day earlier.
Chris Carlson / AP
San Bernardino Sheriff's Department officer Steven Spagon mans a checkpoint during the search for fired Los Angeles officer Christopher Dorner in Big Bear Lake, Calif.
Police say Dorner, 33, is on a mission to execute former LAPD colleagues and superiors and their families to avenge his 2008 firing. They believe he murdered a retired captain's daughter and her fiance in Irvine on Sunday, then killed one cop and wounded two others in shootings in Torrance and Chino on Thursday.
The manhunt led investigators to Big Bear, about two hours from Los Angeles, where the burning hulk of his dark-gray Nissan was discovered with footprints leading into the woods.
Police followed the tracks until they lost them on frozen ground. They said they have no idea if Dorner is still in the area or left the mountain on foot or with a different vehicle.
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This undated photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner.
All night, they piled into snowcats and armored personnel carriers with snowchains and drove along mountain roads, checking on homes where frightened residents are holed up.
Schools were closed Friday as the searching continued with a focus on empty cabins higher on the mountain.
"We want to make sure he didn't find a place to hide for the night," McMahon said. "Certainly there has been time to get out of here, but we don't know if he has, in fact, left."
The sheriff acknowledged that the hunt for a man who is effectively hunting them could be nerve-wracking.
"This business is not always safe," he said. "But this is what we train for."
The LAPD believes Dorner, who is 6 feet and 270 pounds, has an arsenal of weapons that includes assault rifles. He earned a ribbon for?rifle marksmanship and a medal for pistol expertise in the Navy Reserves, where he was a lieutenant until his honorable discharge last week.
He served in the LAPD from 2005 to 2008 and was fired for making false statements after he accused a training officer of brutalizing a man.
During an internal review, he was represented by Randal Quan, a retired captain. His daughter Monica Quan, 28, and her fianc?, Keith Lawrence, 27, were fatally shot while parking their car at their apartment complex after a Super Bowl party.
In the 11,300-word manifesto, Dorner vented his rage at Quan and other police officials and made it clear he had no compunction about killing their loved ones.
"I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I?m terminating yours," he wrote in one chilling passage.
Read suspect's manifesto
In the document, Dorner suggests that he believes he will be killed during his spree, but LAPD Chief Charlie Beck appealed to him to surrender.
"This has gone far enough," Beck said Thursday night. "No one else needs to die."
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Officers investigate a burned truck that is believed to belong to Christopher Jordan Dorner at the base of Bear Mountain Ski Resort in Big Bear Lake, Calif.
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