Christopher Dorner manhunt: former LAPD officer could face death penalty [View all]

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Source: The Guardian

Police in California are chasing more than 1,000 tips and reported sightings of Christopher Dorner, the fugitive former police officer who has eluded a massive manhunt and is eligible for the death penalty if caught.

Detectives on Tuesday were examining video footage of a man resembling Dorner buying scuba diving equipment at a store in Torrance days before he allegedly killed three people in a vendetta against the Los Angeles police department.

Authorities also investigated the possibility an associate identified only as JY helped the rogue former officer evade a dragnet in Big Bear, a ski resort where Dorner's pick-up truck was found burning and abandoned last Thursday.

Paul Zellerbach, the county district attorney of Riverside, where Dorner, 33, allegedly killed one officer and wounded two others, cited special circumstances in murder charges which made the fugitive eligible for execution and rapid extradition should he be caught outside the state.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/12/christopher-dorner-lapd-death-penalty