Christopher Dorner held couple hostage in cabin, source says

[Are_grits_groceries]

Before the shootout, Christopher Dorner allegedly broke into a cabin days ago in the San Bernardino Mountains, tied up the couple inside and held them hostage until he left Tuesday morning, a source said.

Then Dorner was allegedly spotted by state Fish and Wildlife officers in a white pickup truck, the source said. When they attempted to stop him, Dorner crashed the truck during a chase and exchanged gunfire with the officers as he fled into another cabin, where he was quickly surrounded by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies, the source said.

Dorner is now surrounded by police inside a Big Bear area cabin after allegedly getting into a gun battle that left two San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies The source said one deputy was hit as Dorner fired out of the cabin and a second was injured when Dorner exited the back of the cabin, deployed a smoke bomb and opened fire again in an apparent attempt to flee. Dorner was driven back inside the cabin, the source said.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/dorner-cabin-couple-hostage.html

He ain't going anywhere.

[bayareamike]

1. Does he currently have hostages? nt

[steve2470]

2. LAPD says no confirmation on hostages at their presser right now nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. Not from anything I have read

or seen. They aren't acting like he does I don't think.

[Common Sense Party]

4. I don't think so. The cabin he's in now was supposedly unoccupied. nt

[geek tragedy]

5. If there are no hostages now, there's no reason to not wait him out.

They can keep him up without sleep indefinitely. He'll become sleep-deprived, disoriented, and will eventually conk out or slip up and give them a window to take him alive.