Jodi Miller, spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, acknowledged in the late afternoon that emotions were running high at the Level 1 Trauma Center.

One colleague was pronounced dead at the hospital at 2:24 p.m., she said. Another was in surgery, but was expected to live.

San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon, in a 10-minute press briefing outside the emergency room entrance, confirmed the two were struck in a “brief exchange of gunfire” after responding to a report Dorner had crashed a stolen vehicle, and chased the wanted gunman into a forest.

“No other information is being released about the deputies at this time,’’ Miller said with pain-filled eyes.  Read more at The Press Enterprise