Amber Alert: DiMaggio killed after 'confrontation' at Idaho camp

Amber Alert: DiMaggio killed after ‘confrontation’ at Idaho camp

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Phillip Garrido enters a courtroom in Placerville, Calif. Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in prison for Jaycee Dugard’s abduction. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

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A tent in the backyard of a home in Antioch, Calif., where authorities say kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press)

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Elizabeth Smart addresses the media outside a federal courthouse following the guilty verdict in the Brian David Mitchell trail in Salt Lake City. Mitchell was found guilty in the June 5, 2002, kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. (Colin E. Braley / Associated Press)

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Elizabeth Smart poses with her parents, Lois and Ed, outside their home in 2003. Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002 (Tom Smart / Associated Press)

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Brian David Mitchell, Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper, is escorted into the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City in 2010. (Jim Urquhart / Associated Press)

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Katie Beers, whose kidnapping attracted nationwide headlines in 1992, poses for a photo in Old Westbury, N.Y. The 30-year-old mother of two co-wrote a new book about her ordeal. (Frank Eltman / Associated Press)

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John Esposito sits handcuffed in a van in Hauppauge, N.Y., as he is about to be taken to court for arraignment on charges of kidnapping Katie Beers. (Michael Albans / Associated Press)

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Shawn Hornbeck, 15, watches as his parents Craig and Pam Akers talk to the media in Richwoods, Mo. Shawn, who was missing since Oct. 2002, was recovered in 2007 with another missing boy. (Tom Gannam / Associated Press)

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Michael Devlin is escorted out of the Franklin County Courthouse in Union, Mo. Devlin pleaded guilty in Franklin County to one charge of child kidnapping and one count of armed criminal action in the 2007 abduction of 13-year-old William “Ben” Ownby. (Tom Gannam / Associated Press)

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Steven Stayner, right, and and his brother Delbert Stayner walk toward their Merced County home as Steven was reunited with his family following a 7-year kidnap ordeal. (Ted Benson / Associated Press)

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Convicted kidnapper Kenneth Eugene Parnell during a court appearance in Oakland in 2003. Parnell was convicted in the kidnappings of Steven Stayner in 1972 and Timothy White in 1980. (Nick Lammers / Associated Press)

By Jason Wells and Andrew Blankstein

Aug. 10, 2013 6:25 PM PT

A massive multiagency manhunt for the suspect in the kidnapping of San Diego County teen Hannah Anderson ended Saturday after a tactical team shot him dead at a campsite deep in the Idaho wilderness.

San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said at a news conference that his team was notified in San Diego at 4:22 p.m. that James Lee DiMaggio had been shot and killed by an FBI tactical agent.

“Obviously, we would have liked Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in a court of law, but that’s not going to be the case,” Gore said.

Meanwhile, Hannah appeared to be in “pretty good shape” and would be evaluated at a hospital, Gore said. Plans were underway to have her father, Brett Anderson, reunite with Hannah in Idaho tomorrow, he added.

In a message sent to CNN, Anderson said he was “nervous” and excited to see Hannah, and “worried about what my daughter has been through.”

DiMaggio, 40, allegedly killed Hannah’s mother, Christina Anderson, and 8-year-old brother, Ethan, whose bodies were discovered Sunday in the suspect’s burning home in eastern San Diego County.

DiMaggio was shot and killed about 4 p.m. Saturday after his camp was spotted from the air and ground units were then sent in, “leading to the confrontation,” Gore added.

Gore declined to go into detail on what transpired during the confrontation, deferring to officials in Ada County in Idaho, where a news conference was scheduled for later in the evening.

It was a dramatic end to weeklong hunt that included a five-state Amber Alert and ultimately culminated at the end of a dirt road on the edge of a 2.3-million acre wilderness in central Idaho after a horseback rider reported spotting DiMaggio and Hannah.

His blue Nissan Versa was found concealed at the end of a road near a trail head entering the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

Much of the terrain is so rugged and remote that some ground search crews had to be flown in Saturday morning. Others took to horseback, while helicopters buzzed overhead.

By Saturday afternoon, roughly 150 FBI officials had combined with local and state officials to amass a force of more than 200 personnel, according to Ada County sheriff’s spokeswoman Andrea Dearden.

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