NORTHRIDGE — The manhunt for fugitive former police officer Christopher Dorner led LAPD SWAT officers to a Northridge Lowe’s home improvement store on Sunday.
LAPD swarmed the store off Nordhoff Street about 5 p.m.after people reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner.
Employees and customers were evacuated and surrounding streets were closed, and officers checked all cars leaving the area.
Dorner was not found, and police have called it a case of mistaken identity.
The search came several hours after the LAPD issued a tactical alert as it handled the Dorner manhunt as well as security for the Grammys.
Sunday’s tactical alert was declared shortly after 2 p.m.
In a tactical alert, officers can be held over on their shifts and do not respond to low-priority radio calls.
Also on Sunday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner’s capture.
The city of Los Angeles, law enforcement organizations, private groups and anonymous donors have all contributed to the reward fund, according to law enforcement sources.
“We will not tolerate anyone undermining the security of this community,” Villaraigosa said at a news conference. “We will not tolerate this reign of terror.”
Dorner allegedly carried out the slayings as part of a vengeful campaign sparked by his 2009 dismissal from the Los Angeles Police Department, authorities said.
Officials hope the huge reward will give police the break they’ve been waiting for.
Police Chief Charlie Beck said the reward was “the largest local reward ever offered to our knowledge.”
“This is an act of domestic terrorism,” Beck said of those killed and allegedly targeted by Dorner. “He has targeted those we entrust to protect the public.”
The massive manhunt for Dorner began last week, and has gone from Riverside to Corona to Point Loma in San Diego to Big Bear.
Dorner’s Nissan Titan pickup was found Thursday morning engulfed in flames on a mountain road in the Big Bear area.
Law enforcement officials have since focused their search efforts there. Officials said Sunday that the search in Big Bear was winding down.
On Saturday, Beck announced that he was reopening the investigation into the firing of Dorner from the Police Department.
Beck said he was reopening the investigation “not to appease a murderer” but to assure the public his department is fair and transparent.
He said he wanted to protect an “increasingly positive relationship with the community” that the LAPD has developed over the last few years.
Meanwhile, more information was released about the Riverside police officer killed Thursday.
Michael Crain was an 11-year veteran of the department. Crain, 34, was killed when he and his partner were allegedly fired upon by Dorner.
Authorities say Dorner ambushed Crain and his 27-year-old partner when they were stopped at a red light at Arlington and Magnolia avenues in Riverside early Thursday morning.
Crain’s partner, who was also struck by gunfire, is expected to survive.
Crain served two tours in Kuwait as a rifleman in the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 3rd Battalion 1st Marines, according to a news release.
He leaves behind his wife, a 10-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Grove Community Church in Riverside.
60 Comments to “Dorner Manhunt Leads Police to Lowe’s in Northridge”
February 10, 2013 at 6:49 PM
I thought Dorner was in big bear??
February 10, 2013 at 7:16 PM
Just his truck, possibly a ploy to thow them off his trail.
February 10, 2013 at 7:21 PM
probably is, but isntgoing to stop the cops from ruining peoples lives, just got intell the a man was shot and killed in big bear that looked like chris, the cops are doing more damege then chris. now they are the more of the two evils
February 10, 2013 at 10:45 PM
Have another drink and STFU.
February 10, 2013 at 11:57 PM
he's the suntan superman… He's everywhere
February 11, 2013 at 9:44 AM
I just saw Dorner, he was with Elvis at Home Depot.
February 10, 2013 at 6:59 PM
why don't the officers just confess of their wrong doings, before he begins killing more people?…why are they so afraid of confessing?
February 10, 2013 at 7:24 PM
the cops ae stil ruining out lives up here in BB, it a mind blow, that the cops are good no matter what. untill we stand as a people under one nation, it will never stop
February 10, 2013 at 7:32 PM
http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/christ… . Your welcome
February 10, 2013 at 7:38 PM
You gotta wonder what this guy knows that the cops don't want him to say.
February 10, 2013 at 7:44 PM
He murdered 3 people.i think I this case that's all the cops need to know
February 10, 2013 at 8:28 PM
Yes he did. And needs to be executed.
February 10, 2013 at 10:41 PM
Exactly right.
February 11, 2013 at 11:44 AM
well do you have the proofs?? because the LAPD still doesn't have the profs he did it… hence the word "Allegedly"….
February 10, 2013 at 7:48 PM
More mistaken identity? They will probably rush the Grammy's and shoot LL Cool J or Ruben Studdard.
February 10, 2013 at 10:32 PM
They should.
February 10, 2013 at 7:50 PM
Guy has to feel lucky he didn't get shot.
February 10, 2013 at 11:58 PM
i'm glad i haven't been shot with all the wackos with guns and badges shooting up the southland
February 10, 2013 at 8:06 PM
Yeah he killed three people, but the pork chops attempted murder as well. What about the women in torrance? The other guy? Those cops need to go to trial for attempted murder. They go all out to back up their fellow swine but when one of us is a victim of crime they don’t give a flying rats behind. The milliom dollar reward is an insult to everyone in LA county who has had a loved one murdered and the perp never caught. What reward is offered for them?
And an oink oink here an oink oink there the pigs looking everywhere eeh ahh eeh ahh oohh
February 10, 2013 at 8:10 PM
If you read the report, he is the mental case. The LAPD did nothing wrong in this case. He is a nut case that let women in the department get to him, he married one cop for 18 days! Dated another, she got a restraining order against him. Do your homework!!
February 10, 2013 at 8:32 PM
That doesn't justify a shoot to kill order on this man. I dont know what country you are from but in the USA we are innocent until proven guilty. My pops is a vet and fought for that freedom. Any porkchops who take the law into their own hands are just as much criminal as this Dorner character.
February 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM
We have a fully-functional Police State. Only the Blue Cult worshiping traitors deny it.
February 11, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Actually he he got the restraining order against her, so please do your homework..thanks
February 10, 2013 at 9:12 PM
You're a freaking idiot!
February 10, 2013 at 8:13 PM
http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/christ… You people can't handle the truth!
February 10, 2013 at 10:17 PM
The Truth? The Truth is that the System protects the Blue Cult by any means necessary. A bunch of lying cops proves nothing.
February 10, 2013 at 8:16 PM
You also need spell check, read that report if you can
February 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM
Im wondering if the Police would not 100% of the time stand behind corrupt sadistic cops>> Fullerton PD for instance, I wonder if people would be less apt to back Dorner?
February 10, 2013 at 9:03 PM
That wasn't Dorner. That was Rondell Sheridan, who played the dad on That's So Raven.
February 11, 2013 at 12:01 AM
was he injured?
February 10, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Chad is a pig troll.
February 10, 2013 at 9:39 PM
Don't go Reginald Denny on me. At least I use my real name. Read the REPORT!
February 10, 2013 at 10:03 PM
Rodney King, O.J Simpson, both thought they were innocent. Where are they now? Dorner will end up in one of the two positions. Dead or locked up, good riddence
February 10, 2013 at 9:15 PM
Dorner is as elusive as Bigfoot.
February 10, 2013 at 9:17 PM
My comment was deleted my administrator… and its because I used bad words to cuss out the pigs.
I remain in saying… CHRISTPHER, may God bless you! Thank you for standing up for whats right and bringing light to the read pigs.
February 10, 2013 at 10:39 PM
UP YOURS.
February 10, 2013 at 11:22 PM
Oink oink.
February 10, 2013 at 11:21 PM
If the cops keep abusing people like herded animals, like they did these innocent shoppers, it will be no surprise that thousands more people starting thinking like Dorner.
February 10, 2013 at 11:22 PM
What's with this "comment has been deleted by the administrator"? I didn't write anything profane.
February 11, 2013 at 2:37 AM
God does not bless any one who kills. I feel for him what happen. And the pigs are the ones who dirty this country with violence. Where this country is going with violence and people with poor mentality and ignorant. SCARY. To do the right is not to Kill.
February 11, 2013 at 5:11 AM
Where's Waldo? Feeling safe with all those trigger happy uptight targets in the general area?
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February 11, 2013 at 6:50 AM
When I see a post saying somewhere Dorner might be I just brace myself for the totals of civilians the police have shot at.
February 11, 2013 at 6:54 AM
yeah that is why the "pigs" are hiding, oh, wait they aren't the pos orner is. nevermind
February 11, 2013 at 6:54 AM
Dorner is one of those Afro American that give us a bad name.
February 11, 2013 at 9:25 AM
No actually he’s not, the ones that show there boxer and shoot into crowds of kids because of a certain color they are wearing are the ones that give us African-Americans a bad name. Not the ones that actually stand up for themselves and other while we are being picked out based on our color and or geneder. True he should have picked a battle with the people he was mad at and not the innocent but at least it was for a purpose and not nonsense.
February 11, 2013 at 7:46 AM
The reopening of this investigation is most critical. If the investigation appears to lack integrity of motive and intent, which I do think it already has, we are at risk of increased violence from 'copy cat' killings from people who view Mr. Dorner as a hero.
Please contact the President's office at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call#c…
or by phone at: 1-202456-1111
Also, we can contact the CA’s Attorney General’s office at:
Voice: (916) 322-3360 or
(Toll-free in California)
(800) 952-5225
Fax: (916) 323-5341
February 11, 2013 at 8:33 AM
Remember people, you will only get the reward if Dornan is "arrested & convicted".
Since LE will make sure he's dead before he's arrested, the reward is just a carrot they are dangling.
It was just a ploy to get YOU to do their dirty work.
Instead of housing all those threatened in the manifesto in ONE place and guarding that ONE place, THEY have put their neighbors and immediate community throughout Southern California at risk of being shot. Not by Dornan but by the very nervous and trigger-happy LE protective detail that we taxpayers are footing the bill for.
February 11, 2013 at 9:28 AM
very good point made.
February 11, 2013 at 9:43 AM
I just saw Dorner, he was with Elvis at Home Depot.
February 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM
Careful mate, we might see two or three more people gunned down by LAPD while they are 'investigating'.
February 11, 2013 at 10:06 AM
LAWSUITS
February 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM
This is going to become a more common thing here in Cali. , people snapping because of the Rent is to High, Gas is to high, Food is to High we get no breaks here. Villagosa you need to just shut up and start packing with your no fixing pot holes. All you do is pay yourself no one here is for the people. All you do is take, take, take.
February 11, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Beck, Bratton and those named in the manifesto are protected and safe while placing their neighbors and their immediate communities in harm's way.
The neighbors and communities are not threatened by Dorner, but by stressed out, nervous cops who are being forced to wear a target on their backs and have already gunned down innocent civilians.
If I were one of these cops forced to protect any of these corrupt buffoons, I would be seriously asking myself if Beck, Bratton or anyone named in the manifesto would be so willing take a bullet for me.
February 11, 2013 at 11:37 AM
did anyone look at all facts regardin him, his work history which is the only reason he is trying to clear his name, the LAPD should come forward( if anyone the lady that kicked the man she was arresting should come forward). its wrong what he is doing in order to clear his name however i understand it frm his point of view, i mean it is the same as the movie which is base off of a true story john Q. but lets go back a few days ago, when i seen the alert on the freeway i made it a point to remember the last 3 digits of the lp# and it was not the same one being shown later that day, i would like to know when that shooting happen with the two ladies in riverside, an if LAPD is really trying to bring him in alive then way was the truck, that was involved in the mistaken id, shot up the way it was, those ladies did not have a firearm on them so what was the officers reason for opening fire????????? the media doesnt want to talk about that or what caused doner to do wht he is doing
February 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM
That’s why we call them pigs.
February 11, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Villaraigosa is the original OG. Check into his record
February 11, 2013 at 5:06 PM
All cops are criminals with badges. Defend the 2nd amendment. It is the only way to defend yourself and not end up shot on sight by the government.
LAPD officer accused of rape faces a separate lawsuit for beating a man nearly to death http://raniakhalek.com/2013/02/07/lapd-officer-ac…
February 11, 2013 at 7:31 PM
This one is easy Dorner knows the truth about these corrupt cops and at sight of him they are going to shoot him down and claim he fired first…..lol too bad that the truth will never come out…