2nd UPDATE: Chantry Flats Shooting Suspect Found Dead

Updated May 3, 11 a.m. In a 10:49 a.m press release, Los Angeles County Coroner's investigators and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide investigators confirm that the body of a man found Monday morning in the Chantry Flat area of Angeles National Forest is that of Pochter.

"We want hikers, area workers and the public to know that no other suspects are being sought in this homicide," Sheriff's Homicide Detective Ray Lugo said in a released statement. "The case is closed."

Updated 3:27 p.m. A hiker in the Chantry Flat Recreation Area Monday found a deceased body with a handgun nearby, according to an updated press release from Capt. Mike Parker of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The 3 p.m. release did not identify the body, although hours earlier Lt. Angela Shepherd of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station told Patch the deceased man was Kevin Pochter, the suspect accused of shooting to death Dean Albert of Arcadia on Thursday.

At about 8:30 a.m. Monday, the hiker believed the man to be sleeping, but remembered from various news reports that authorities were looking for a man who was considered armed and dangerous, the release says. The hiker contacted the rangers who alerted the sheriff’s command post, which dispatched deputies to investigate.

Sheriff’s Mounted Enforcement Detail deputies went to the described area and located the deceased male. Sheriff’s Homicide investigators and Coroner’s investigators are at the scene, Parker says in the release.

According to the sheriff’s department, the area where the body was found has a panoramic view of a nearby city. It was approximately six miles from Mount Wilson, where the car of the victim was found abandoned. The distance between the two locations is a steep slope of rugged terrain, about 3000’ vertical feet lower than the where the car was found.

Original story:

, authorities found the 53-year-old Huntington Beach man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday.

Lt. Angela Shepherd said authorities found Pochter in Chantry Flat, the same recreation area in the Angeles National Forest where Pochter allegedly shot to death Dean Albert of Arcadia, a man whom sheriff's deputies referred to as a lifelong friend of Pochter. 

Deputies from Crescenta Valley, Temple, and San Dimas Sheriff's Stations as well as officers from Arcadia, Sierra Madre, and Monrovia Police Departments spent days searching for Pochter.

On Sunday, team members from the Sheriff's Special Enforcement Bureau and Emergency Services Details joined multiple search and rescue personnel to search for Pochter on the ground, while a sheriff's helicopter Air-Rescue 5 scoured the area rugged area from the air.

Deputies and search and rescue personnel from Crescenta Valley, Temple, and San Dimas Stations covered some 62 square miles of rugged terrain, including hiking trails.  

Albert was collapsed but still breathing when he was found. He was treated at the scene and transported to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.

The sheriff's department said that Albert's car, a silver BMW, had been taken from the scene and later found Saturday morning at Mount Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains. Witnesses recognized the vehicle, and deputies recovered it.

Editor's note: Correction - An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that deputies believed Albert was killed between the Mt. Wilson summit and Chantry Flat. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Albert was found at Chantry Flats Campground.