Former LAPD officer suspect in two murders

Police in Los Angeles are looking for a former officer who is believed to have shot and killed two people on Sunday. The suspect, Christopher Dorner, was dismissed from his job at the LAPD in 2009. The police are seeking the public's assistance in finding him. 

An Irvine police officer talks on the phone Monday at the entrance to the parking garage where two people were found shot to death in their car in Irvine, Calif., Sunday night. Police are attempting to locate the suspected shooter.

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February 7, 2013

Police said Wednesday night they are looking for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in the shootings of a Cal State Fullerton basketball coach and her fiancé, and they say the man is armed and dangerous.

Former LAPD officer and U.S. Navy reservist Christopher Dorner is a suspect in the killings of Monica Quan, 28, and Keith Lawrence, 27, who were found shot to death in their car at a parking structure Sunday night, Irvine police Chief David L. Maggard said at a news conference.

Maggard says Dorner, who was an LAPD officer until his dismissal in 2009, implicated himself in the killings with a multi-page manifesto he wrote that was obtained by police. Maggard gave no further details on the manifesto or its contents.

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Police do not know Dorner's whereabouts, but his last address was in La Palma, Calif., and they are seeking the public's help in finding him, the chief said.

Dorner is expected to be armed and dangerous, and Maggard encouraged anyone who sees him to immediately call 911. Police said he may be driving a blue, 2005 Nissan Titan pickup truck.

The chief said the LAPD and FBI are assisting in the search.

Quan, an assistant women's basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton, is the daughter of a former LAPD captain, Randal Quan, who retired in 2002 and later worked as chief of police at Cal Poly, Pomona.

Lawrence, her fiancé, was a public safety officer at the University of Southern California.

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Autopsies showed both were killed by multiple gunshot wounds in the parking structure at their condominium in Irvine.