LAPD Chief Beck Says Dorner Stalked His Then-88-Year-Old Father

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fired Los Angeles policeman who authorities say killed four people during a vengeance spree last year also stalked the father of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.

Beck tells a television station that detectives told him after Christopher Dorner's death that he'd followed Beck's then-88-year-old father, retired LAPD Deputy Chief George Beck.

Dorner had worked in the police division where Beck's father lives.

The chief says Dorner's writings indicated he'd planned to kill his father's Australian shepherd.

Beck says he's still shocked to think that Dorner targeted his family but his father, who turned 90 on Thursday, is stoic about it.

Dorner claimed he was unjustly fired.

He killed four people in February 2013 before being surrounded and shooting himself in a burning cabin in the San Bernardino mountains.

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