Former Police Officer On Crime Spree

Former L.A. Police Officer On Killing Spree

This site is about the law and the criminal justice system. I have written about a Deputy District Attorney that was shot and killed in front of a courthouse in Texas and some judges in Pennsylvania that were charged with corruption so I thought that I should cover a related news story. 

If anyone has not been following the news then they may not know about Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer who was fired by the department a couple of years ago. Apparently he is still disgruntled over being fired. Actually that is the understatement of the year, this guy has lost his sanity. He has already killed at least three people.

Mr. Dorner has been trained by the police department and the military. In fact, he recently received an honorable discharged from the National Guard after ten years of service. That was before he started his crime spree by killing two people as they sat in a vehicle in a parking structure. 

One of the two initial victims was the daughter of an attorney, former police officer that represented Mr. Dorner at an administrative hearing that ultimately resulted in his termination from Los Angeles Police Department. 

The concept of disgruntled client blaming his attorney for an unwanted result is not new. A couple of years ago a Fresno attorney was shot and killed during a lunch break by a husband that was bitter about the proceedings in a divorce action. That attorney is not alone many attorneys have been injured by clients over the years, some killed. 

As of this writing, Mr. Dorner has killed three people and injured more people. He has pledged to continue to kill people until his name is cleared. I hope he is located before he can hurt anyone else.