 Dorner was born in 1979 in New York but grew up in Los Angeles County, California.  He attended elementary school at Norwalk Christian School from first to seventh grade.  Dorner attended John F. Kennedy High School in La Palma, and Cypress High School in Cypress, where he graduated in  He graduated from Southern Utah University in 2001 with a major in political science and a minor in psychology.  Then moved onto the naval reserve where he served as a lieutenant in Nevada starting in 2002( was honorably discharged due to his incident).  He also joined the LAPD in 2005, completing his training in  His mother Nancy was the closest relative he had.

 He is considered a murder.  He committed murder/ attempted murder.  He’s a suspect in four homicides.

 He stated in his manifesto published on facebook exactly who his targets were and why.  3 February 2013, Monica Quan, 28, and her fiance Keith Lawrence, 27, were found shot to death in an Irvine parking garage  On February 11, 2013 the Riverside District Attorney filed charges against Dorner for the murder of a police officer and the attempted murder of three other officers. The following day, Dorner was killed during a stand-off with police at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains.

 He would have been most likely charged with life in jail or death sentence.  But was shot onsite instead.