Near Big Bear Lake, California (CNN) -- One of the two sheriff's deputies wounded Tuesday in a shootout with a suspect believed to be renegade ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner has died, according to CNN affiliates and the Los Angeles Times.
The wounded officers had been taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center with "unknown injuries," after a shootout with a man at a police roadblock near Big Bear, the San Bernardino Sheriff's office said earlier in a statement.
A law enforcement source told CNN that Dorner had stolen a vehicle from a house and opened fire on the deputies before fleeing. Dorner later was surrounded by authorities, the source said.
Dorner barricaded himself inside a cabin as officers moved in, the sheriff's statement said.
The sheriff issued a statement asking news helicopters to pull back from the area because "gunfire is being exchanged."
Former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes said on CNN that authorities haven't determined if the suspect has hostages, but will act as if he does.
Los Angeles police spokesman Adam Smith gave few details at an afternoon news conference, saying they believe the suspect had access to television and might be watching coverage.
"If he's watching this, the message for himself is enough is enough," Smith told reporters. "It's time to turn yourself in, it's time to stop the bloodshed."
Authorities have been searching for Dorner since last week, after he was named as the suspect in the shooting deaths of the daughter of his police union representative and her fiance. Police also say he killed one police officer in Riverside and wounded two others on February 7.
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