The Christopher Dorner came into the world with one word that would shape his life for better and for

worse. Integrity. Born in the summer of 1979, he grew up in California and later graduated from

Southern Utah University. Those who knew him described him as a quiet but sweet person, friendly, and loyal.

He was athletic and a team player. He grew up playing sports, and he even played on the

university's football team while he was studying. But life for Christopher was not without its

hardships. He later admitted that he'd been the only African-American student in all of

his classes from first grade to seventh grade, and as we all know, children can be cruel to

anyone who's different. Christopher claimed that he was often targeted and bullied because of his

race, and the after-effects of this racial abuse

were something that would stick with him for the rest of his life.

Writing online years later, Christopher stated that he wasn't, quote, a hoodlum, a gangster,

or an aspiring rapper, like people made him out to be. In fact, Christopher knew what he wanted to be early on in life,

and it was far from what he believed the media and his classmates painted him as.

When he was still a teenager, Christopher joined his local police department's youth program,

and after attending university, he jumped right back into his chosen career.

He officially began his police training at the academy,

but stopped in 2002 when he joined the United States Navy Reserve.

He led a security unit at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada

before deploying to Bahrain for almost three years of service.

When Christopher was honorably discharged in 2013, he'd risen to the rank of lieutenant

and received a Navy rifle marksmanship ribbon and a Navy pistol shot ribbon for his expertise

in firearms. But when Christopher wasn't working as a Navy reservist, he was back at his studies to become a

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