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A warrior, unsettled after Iraq duty, goes on a rampage in Southern California. It’s not clear whether he suffered from PTSD or had a Narcissistic personality disorder. Either way, a combat trained Navy Seal is fully armed, dangerous and seeking revenge.
LAPD records: Fugitive Christopher Dorner had troubled tenure
Hundreds of pages of court records, which include confidential Internal Affairs reports, detail a pitched struggle between Christopher Jordan Dorner and the Los Angeles Police Department.
His troubles began as a Police Academy recruit in February 2006. It was then Dorner filed an official complaint, saying two other recruits had made “ethnic remarks,” an investigator wrote. The department found one recruit made such a comment, but the other had not.
The court records outline Dorner’s attempt to overturn his 2009 firing from the LAPD for lying about another officer’s conduct. Dorner himself said the failure of those appeals led directly to last week’s rampage.
Performed military duty in Iraq from July 2006 – July 2007
Dorner, a naval reservist, spent just four months on the street after graduating from the Police Academy in February 2006. He was called to active military duty that July and served in Iraq [perhaps US Naval Base in Bahrain] before returning to the LAPD in July 2007.
Because of his military duty, his probation was extended, and he was assigned to ride with a training officer, Teresa Evans. Not long into their time together, Evans told investigators, Dorner started crying while they were in a car and asked to be taken back to the station. He had asked about “reintegration” training given to officers returning from military duty.
“Dorner acknowledged that he might have some issues regarding his deployment in Iraq,” an investigator wrote after interviewing Evans. He eventually completed a class called “restoration training,” the investigators found.
About the same time, Dorner’s personal life appeared troubled. Court records show his wife filed for divorce in 2007, though there’s no evidence one was granted. The pair have no children.
An earlier relationship had ended badly just a year before, when court records show Dorner unsuccessfully requested a restraining order against an ex-girlfriend.
About a month after rejoining the police force in 2007, Dorner made a complaint about Evans, saying she had kicked a suspect during an arrest. Evans said it was untrue, and witness reports were conflicting.
That August 2007 complaint sparked an internal investigation that led to Dorner — not Evans — being brought up on internal charges. Dorner was accused of making a false report.
Chris Dorner’s Ex (Ariana Williams) Says She Fears for Her Life (Video)
(Eurweb) – Ex-girlfriens of former Navy Seal, Christopher Dorner, came forward recently, saying he carried firearms on him throughout their relationship.
“He would leave firearms all over my house,” Ariana Williams said. “There’d be one, he’d be in the bed and there’d be one by the bed. There’d be one on the kitchen counter. There may be a combat knife or something, maybe I saw, in the bathroom one day or in the kitchen. He said, `You know, you’re always on duty when you’re a cop. You don’t ever know who is watching you or following you.”
The former couple ended their relationship on a bad note. Now she fears for her life.
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