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Christopher Dorner: What made a police officer kill? By Jon Kelly Former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner shocked the world when he took up arms against ex-colleagues and their families. This week, after a nine-day manhunt, the college graduate was cornered and died in a remote cabin. What made him go bad remains hard to understand. It ended as he surely knew it would - alone, besieged, a blaze consuming the walls around him. After the fires subsided, his former comrades found the charred remains of Christopher Dorner, ex-police officer, US Navy veteran, college graduate and suspected mass killer. A single bullet was lodged in his skull. For nine days, he brought terror to southern California as he pursued a vendetta against his one-time colleagues in the Los Angeles Police Department and their families. He is accused of murdering the daughter of an ex-LAPD captain and her fiance on 3 February and shooting dead an officer in cold blood. Three further police personnel were shot and wounded while he was on the loose, and another died in the final siege this week at the ski resort of Big Bear. “Start Quote “The person I knew was this smart, good man... he had a lot of integrity - he was a really likeable guy” James Usera College friend The United States has grown wearily accustomed to spree killings of late, but Dorner, 33, was no Jared Loughner, James Holmes or Adam Lanza - the mentally disturbed outsiders accused of the mass shootings at Tucson, Aurora and Newtown. By contrast, he had once been an upstanding citizen, an athlete, a law enforcement officer and a decorated military veteran. He was remembered by many of those who knew him as intelligent and sensitive. In a photo released by the police, he stands upright in uniform, smiling warmly against a backdrop of the American flag. Somewhere along the line, Christopher Dorners life went dramatically awry. His downward spiral appears to have begun in 2008, when he was dismissed from the LAPD on a cha