Police Say Suspected Killer Tried to Hijack a Boat

Byline: The Log Staff SAN DIEGO — An attempted vessel hijacking at Southwestern Yacht Club was linked to a murder suspect who until Feb. 12 was the subject of a manhunt extending from San Diego to Big Bear. At press time, police believed 33-year-old Christopher Jordan Dorner was killed during a shootout and standoff with police in the San Bernardino Mountains, during which the cabin he was thought to be holed-up in burned to the ground. Before that happened, police said he had shot five law enforcement officers and killed two, in three separate incidents. The statewide manhunt for Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer, was launched Feb. 7, after he was implicated as a suspect in a Feb. 3 double-murder in Irvine. A few days later, on Feb. 7, police said Dorner shot at two officers in Corona, grazing one with a bullet. Hours later, police said he ambushed two Riverside police officers as they sat at a red light, fatally wounding one officer. Prior to the officer shootings, San Diego police said Dorner spent time in San Diego — and they suspect him in an attempt to steal a 47-foot yacht from its 81-year-old owner. During a San Diego Police Department press...