Christopher Dorner: Owner of 'killer cop's' shootout cabin watched on TV as her family's home burned

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 12:21 EST, 14 February 2013 | UPDATED: 14:04 EST, 14 February 2013

The owner of the remote mountain cabin where ex-LAPD cop Christopher Doer made his last stand watched on TV as her family's 90-year-old vacation home bued to the ground.

Candy Martin said she was helpless as the building in the San Beardino National Forest became the center of a raging gun battle on Tuesday that killed one sheriff's deputy, wounded another wounded and left the fugitive murder suspect Christopher Doer dead.

Ms Martin said she flipped on the television on Tuesday afteoon and realized that the cabins featured on the breaking news coverage of the standoff looked familiar.

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Destroyed: This is the destroyed wreckage of the cabin where Christopher Doer made his last stand in San Beardino National Forest

Devastated: Candy Martin said she sobbed as she watched her family's vacation home bu to the ground on live television

Helpless: TV news chopper captured live images of the cabin buing down

'And we’re looking and we say, "Oh these are cabins, these look like," and there’s no doubt that those are my cabins,' she told NBC 4 in Los Ageles.

Ms Martin bought the Seven Oaks Cabins, situation in the forest about 20 miles from Big Bear, Califoia, in 2005 as a mountain getaway for her extended family.

'It’s hard for me to imagine him in there. And I did do that. I imagined, what is he doing? What room is he in?' she told the TV station.

The home had solid wood paneling and floors and contained a lot of history, It was built in 1928 and the compound was the set for several movies and TV shows, Ms Martin said.

Watching the home bu to the ground on live TV was the hardest part, she said.

'Then the fire. Oh my gosh,' Ms Martin said. 'That was heart wrenching to see, the fire. I just started crying. I couldn’t talk at that point.'

Presumed dead: Police have found charred remains in the basement of the cabin that they believe belong to Christopher Doer - though no positive ID has yet been made

Mountain retreat: Ms Martin rents out several of the cabins as a peaceful, quiet mountain retreat

Standoff: This is the Seven Oaks property where Doer barricaded himself inside Ms Martin's family cabin

Ms Martin said that when her family is not staying on the mountain in the cabins, she rents out several of the buildings to tourists and advertises the site as a tranquil, peaceful mountain paradise.

'Leave behind the stress and smog of the big city.  Be our guest in a cabin nestled in the woods and on the banks of the Santa Ana River,' the website reads.

However, several online reviewers have begun posting outrageous comments in the wake of the siege.

'The underground tunnel feature is just great! Comes in handy!' wrote one reviewer on the Yahoo Travel site for the Seven Oaks cabins.

'A little hot today. The rates are very reasonalbe [sic] since I didn't pay anyway. Good luck on the renovation,' a user calling himself 'Great SPOT for a BBQ' writes.

Doer barricaded himself inside the cabin after a series of dramatic police chases and shootouts on Tuesday afteoon.

Taking cover: Heavily-armed officers surrounded the property and took cover around the other cabins

Killed: Detective Jeremiah MacKay, 35, was shot dead during the standoff with Doer

The former U.S. Navy Reserve lieutenant made his way to Big Bear, 100 miles east of Los Angeles, last Thursday after he went on a revenge killing spree that left three people dead. 

He is believed to have shot dead the daughter of a former LAPD captain who defended him at a police review board hearing where Doer was fired in 2009. Monica Quand was found murdered in her car in Irvine, along with her fiance Keith Lawrence on February 3.

Last Thursday, he wounded an LAPD officer in a shootout and then ambushed two Riverside police - killing Officer Michael Crain and gravely wounded a second patrolman.

Later that afteoon, Doer's buing truck was found in the woods outside Big Bear. Despite an intense police search of the area for several days, Doer was revealed to be hiding in vacant condos just across the street from the San Beardino County Sheriff's command post.

On Tuesday, he surfaced after five days of hiding and tied up a couple after breaking into their home. He stole their SUV, but crashed it during a police pursuit.

Doer then carjacked a Boy Scout leader's truck. He abandoned the vehicle and fled for Ms Martin's cabins after a shootout with a Califoia game warden.

San Beardino SWAT officers surrounded the cabin and engaged Doer in a raging firefight.

Detective Jeremiah MacKay, 35, was shot and killed when Doer tried to make an escape. A second deputy was gravely wounded.

The cabin bued to the ground after an armored police vehicle began knocking down its walls. A charred body, believed to be Doer's, was found inside.

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