(Reuters) – A fugitive former police officer whose charred remains were found in a burned-out California mountain cabin following a standoff with police died from a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound, a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokesman said on Friday.
An autopsy determined that Christopher Dorner, 33, was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Captain Kevin Lacy told a news conference.
Lacy said authorities had not yet determined who fired that single round. But, he said: “The information we have seems to indicate that the wound that took Christopher Dorner’s life was self inflicted.”
Dorner, who also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy reserves, was accused of killing four people since February 3, including a sheriff’s deputy shot during the gun battle on Tuesday in the San Bernardino Mountains.