LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — The six-day manhunt for Christopher Dorner will cost the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department more than a half-million dollars.

Some 125 deputies searched for the fugitive ex-cop, who killed four people to avenge his firing from the LAPD in 2009.

Sheriff’s department spokeswoman Jodi Miller said the initial estimate for the search and investigation is $550,000.

Ten other agencies were involved in the manhunt. The LAPD says it has not yet determined its costs related to the search for Dorner.

Dorner was found dead in a burned cabin after a gun battle on Feb. 12.

Meantime, wounded Riverside police officer Andrew Tachias is out of the hospital.

Tachias and his training officer, Michael Crain, were ambushed by Dorner as they sat in their patrol car at a red light in the predawn hours of Feb. 7.

Crain, a 15-year veteran of the force, was killed in the attack.

Dorner’s first victims were an Irvine couple, Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence, according to police.

Quan’s father, a former LAPD captain, was involved in the review process that led to Dorner’s termination.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Det. Jeremiah MacKay was killed in the final gun battle with Dorner at a cabin in the Big Bear area.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — In the wake of the Christopher Dorner case, the Los Angeles Police Department’s disciplinary procedures are now under a microscope.

Dorner, a former LAPD officer, killed four people and injured three others this month in a revenge campaign for being fired from the department.

He claimed in an online manifesto that he had been railroaded by a discipline system that he described as capricious and racially biased.

The LAPD now says that it wants to make sure the process officers go through before being fired is transparent and fair.

A former cop tells KTLA that he’s glad those procedures are under review.

“We tried for years going the legal route and trying to get the police commission involved and my wife sending letters, and basically it got brushed to the curb,” Derek Sykes claims.

Sykes is a former veteran LAPD officer who believes he was wrongly terminated from the department in 2009.

Now that Dorner’s case is getting a review, Sykes may want the same consideration.

“No matter what I said, no matter what evidence was presented, their minds were already decided from above them,” he said.

Sykes doesn’t want his job back at the LAPD. He says he just wants his name cleared.

“I just want to have my name cleared up and have it to be where I left the department on my own terms,” he said.

At an afternoon news conference on Wednesday, the LAPD brass said it welcomes as many as a half dozen reviews that could follow the Dorner case.

The departments says that it wants justice through transparency.

“The system works. The system is designed to do what it does,” said Deputy Chief Mark Perez.

“It’s designed to weed out the bad ones and to make sure that we don’t find guilty the innocent ones. And it’s doing a very good job,” he said.

It’s that stigma of a “bad cop” that Sykes wants to escape.

“I did everything to show them that I was a good officer and that I was a hard-working officer,” Sykes says.

Some 70 officers have been fired by the LAPD over the last three years. At least six fired police officers are now calling for their disciplinary cases to be reopened.

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — The LAPD held a news conference on Tuesday morning to provide an update on the Christopher Dorner case.

It was the first time that LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has spoken since the standoff in Big Bear last Tuesday that ended with Dorner’s death.

Dorner, a former LAPD officer who was fired in 2009, is believed to have killed four people in a revenge-fueled rampage, outlined in an online manifesto.

His victims included a young Irvine couple, a Riverside police officer and a San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy.

“Even though much of this is about the discussion of Christopher Dorner, we have to remember the victims,” Beck said on Tuesday.

He also spoke about the 50 LAPD officers and their families who were named in Dorner’s manifesto, and who were under protective details during the manhunt.

“Yes, we’re police officers. We all sign up for some degree of risk,” Beck said. “Our families don’t sign up for that. Our children don’t sign up for that.”

He said that the LAPD is making its psychologists available to all the families “so the kids can have some sense of normalcy, some sense of security.”

Beck then addressed the LAPD’s re-examination of the process that led to Dorner’s firing, as well as the claims he made in his manifesto.

He said his special assistant for constitutional policing, Gerald Chalef, has been working “non-stop” on the review.

“I have great confidence in Mr. Chalef, and I know the police commission will do what is right with this, and so will the Los Angeles Police Department,” Beck said.

Beck also commented on the more than $1 million reward, saying it’s the largest in local law enforcement history.

He said it’s also the most complicated, with over 31 donors involved, including many municipalities that have their own rules for giving rewards.

The LAPD has put together a commission to review the various investigations and make recommendations on who the reward should go to.

“It had its desired effect,” Beck said, noting that the reward generated over 1,000 tips.

“It should be paid out. But it has to be done fairly,” he said. “It has to be done according to the rules that govern these things.”

IRVINE, Calif. (KTLA) — One of the first victims of former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner was remembered on Sunday.

A private funeral was held for Monica Quan, 28.

Quan and her fiance, 27-year-old Keith Lawrence, were found shot to death on Super Bowl Sunday atop the parking structure of their Irvine condo complex.

They had gotten engaged only days before.

Quan was the assistant coach for the women’s basketball team at Cal State Fullerton, and Lawrence was an armed public safety officer at USC.

Quan was the daughter of former LAPD captain Randy Quan, who was mentioned for Dorner in an online manifesto.

Randy Quan had apparently represented Dorner in the process that led to his termination from the LAPD.

In his manifesto, Dorner railed about being unfairly fired and promised to exact revenge, saying he had to kill in order to clear his name.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) — A Big Bear resident who was allegedly carjacked by Christopher Dorner spoke to KTLA on Sunday evening.

Rick Heltebrake said he recognized the former LAPD officer on a road in the Big Bear area on February 12.

Dorner then approached Heltebrake’s car with a gun and ordered him out of the vehicle.

Dorner told him he wasn’t going to hurt him, Heltebrake said.

Once Heltebrake felt he was out of harm’s way, he alerted authorities of the carjacking.

Heltebrake told KTLA he felt qualified for some of the reward money offered by the city for the capture and conviction of Dorner.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown Saturday afternoon, holding signs of support for Christopher Dorner, the fired police officer suspected of killing four people.

Those gathered said they were protesting police corruption and the way the massive manhunt for Dorner was conducted. Authorities said Dorner appears to have died from a self-inflected gunshot wound after a shootout with police in Big Bear on Tuesday, ending a deadly rampage that stretched across Southern California.

Protesters said they believed Dorner’s claims that he was unfairly fired from the department in 2009 – grievances described in a lengthy online manifesto that has been attributed to him. Dorner also claimed that he was the victim of racism.

Protesters also said they were appalled by police mistakenly shooting at passengers in two separate trucks in Torrance, wrongly believing Dorner might be in the vehicles. One woman was shot in the back and is still recovering.

The protesters emphasized that they did not condone the killings of which Dorner is accused.

Michael Nam, 30, stood at the corner of 1st and Main Streets with a sign, painted by his girlfriend, showing a tombstone and the words “RIP Habeas Corpus.” The tombstone was engulfed in flames.

Nam, of Lomita, said he was disturbed by the burning of a mountain cabin near Big Bear where Dorner barricaded himself with a high-powered sniper rifle, smoke bombs and a cache of ammo. The blaze started shortly after police fired “pyrotechnic” tear gas into the cabin; the canisters are known as “burners” because the intense heat they emit often causes a fire.

But authorities have maintained that the fire was not intentionally set.

Dorner, whose charred body was found in the cabin, appears to have died of a single gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.

“How the police handled this -– they were the judge, the jury and the executioner,” Nam said. “As an American citizen, you have the right to a trial and due process by law.”

Nam, a former Marine and a current member of the Army National Guard, said he has combat experience from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He said he has been in situations in which a combatant has been barricaded and successfully waited until the person surrendered, eventually getting “tired and coming out on their own.”

Nam said it was “pretty obvious” police wanted Dorner dead. “What I saw was a complete disregard for the Bill of Rights,” Nam said.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon, during a news conference Friday, defended the tactics used by his agency in the shootout at the mountain cabin, which left one of his deputies dead and another seriously wounded.

“The bottom line is the deputy sheriffs of this department, and the law enforcement officers from the surrounding area, did an outstanding job,” he said. “They ran into the line of fire.”

Protesters on Saturday said they organized the event through a Facebook page called “I support Christopher Jordan Dorner.” The Facebook post announcing the protest tells attendees to “keep it PEACEFUL” and to bring recording equipment.

The Facebook page states: “This is not a page about supporting the killing of innocent people. It’s supporting fighting back against corrupt cops and bringing to light what they do.”

As the protesters stood Saturday, drivers passing by honked, waved and gave thumbs up. A handful of officers watched from police headquarters across the street.

Nam said he spoke to the officers before the protest began about what the protesters should do to keep the event peaceful. He said the officers were respectful.

The protesters marched around the block, circling an intersection near the department headquarters. They chanted, “LAPD, you are guilty.”

Signs expressed anger at police and support for Dorner.

“If you’re not enraged, you’re not paying attention,” one sign read.

“Why couldn’t we hear his side?”

“Clear his name! Christopher Dorner”

Liliana Alaniz, 40, came with her family -– her mother, sister, nieces and daughters -– from Long Beach to join the protest, which she said was her first.

“I really, really believe he was innocent in the firing case,” Alaniz said of Dorner.

Alaniz held a sign that read, “Trying to clear your name.”

Her daughter, Andrea Tovar, said Dorner “has his supporters.”

“Murder is never right, but neither is the law when it’s unjust,” said Tovar, 18. She said police need to know they “can’t get away with everything.”

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BIG BEAR, Calif. (KTLA) — Remains found in a burned cabin have been positively identified as those of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner.

“The charred human remains located in the burned out cabin in Seven Oaks have been positively identified to be that of Christopher Dorner,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff and coroner’s office said in a written statement.

“During the autopsy, positive identification was made through dental examination,” the statement said. No cause of death was given.

The charred body was found in the rubble of the cabin that burned down after a dramatic gun battle Tuesday afternoon.

Dorner’s last stand with law enforcement came after a gun battle with San Bernardino deputies that brought his death toll up to four.

Dorner seriously wounded one deputy and killed another. Deputy Jeremiah MacKay leaves behind a wife and two young children.

“The deputy sheriffs that responded to this active shooting scene yesterday were absolutely true heroes,” Sheriff John McMahon said.

“It was like war zone, and our deputies continued to go into that area and try to neutralize and stop the threat,” he added.

McMahon has denied that deputies intentionally started the fire at the cabin.

Deputies were recorded on police radio calling on a plan to bring burners into the home

“I can tell you that it was not on purpose,” McMahon told reporters. “We did not intentionally burn down that cabin to get Mr. Dorner out.”

“Pyrotechnic-type canisters are commonly referred to as burners,” he clarified.

The department has also faced questions about how Dorner hid in another cabin –possibly for days — during the hunt for him.

The cabin was within eyesight of the deputies’ central staging area and in a place where officers searched, knocking door to door.

“I can tell you that the cabin in question had not been rented out since February 6,” said Deputy Chief Steve Kovensky. “As I said, there was an extensive search in that area of the cabins.”

Meantime, it remains unclear who — if anyone — stands to collect the $1.2 million reward that had been offered for information leading to Dorner’s capture and conviction.

The money is now in question because Dorner is dead and so he will not be tried.

The reward money is being discussed by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.

Both men issued statements on Thursday saying more than 20 jurisdictions and entities are involved in the reward.

They say all of them will be coming together to collectively determine whether any individual or individuals qualify.