A fugitive former police officer accused of declaring war on law enforcement in an Internet manifesto and wanted as a suspect in three murders eluded a manhunt for a second day on Friday in the snow-swept mountains east of Los Angeles, Reuters reported. Search teams combed hillsides and homes around a ski area overnight for Christopher Dorner, 33, a former Navy officer presumed by police to be heavily armed and carrying out a vendetta against those he blames for his 2008 dismissal from the Los Angeles Police Department. "We don't know what he's going to do. We know what he's capable of doing and we need to find him," Cindy Bachman, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, told reporters at the Big Bear Lake resort, about 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Los Angeles, late on Thursday. Police used search dogs and helicopters equipped with infrared equipment in an effort to track Dorner, whose pickup truck was found on Wednesday burning in the snow. But authorities appeared to have lost his trail after nightfall. As of late Thursday, sheriff's deputies had gone door to door to about half of the 400 vacation homes in the area without finding signs of forced entry, and no vehicles were reported stolen in the area. A heavy snowfall on Friday morning complicated search efforts. -- SPA
