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 Christopher Dorner, the 33-year-old former Los Angeles Police
Department officer who took his own life after killing four people
in a vendetta against the police force, targeted George Beck, the
father of Police Chief Charlie Beck, LAPD spokeswoman Officer Sally
Madera said.
The news was first reported by local broadcaster NBC4, which
published an interview with Charlie Beck on Thursday.
"With my dad he knew the layout of the house in general. He knew
about my dad's dog. He had made plans to dispatch the dog, to kill
the dog," Beck said in the interview with the station.
"The pit in your stomach just falls out because, what if that had
happened?" he added.
 Dorner led police on a days-long manhunt last year after police
found a manifesto he posted on Facebook, where he blamed a retired
police captain for his 2008 dismissal from the force and vowed
revenge. During his spree, Dorner killed the captain's daughter, her
fiancée, and two additional officers.
The search ended in a firefight with police on Feb. 12, 2013, in the
mountain community of Big Bear, when Dorner shot himself in the head
as the cabin he was barricaded in burned down.
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Earlier this year, police officials said eight officers broke
department policy when they opened fire on two women during the
manhunt after mistaking their truck for one driven by the rogue
ex-cop.
One woman was shot twice in the back and her adult daughter was
wounded by flying debris. Last year, the women received a $4.2
million settlement from the city.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Edmund
Klamann)
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