While Roger Clausse alerted police, Dornier drove towards Baume-les-Dames, killing Louis Girardot on the way and shooting gendarme René Sarrazin in the arm. While being chased by 40 police officers, he shot Georges Pernin and Marie-Alice Champroy at a crossroads causing their cars to crash and killed Pierre Boeuf. When he came to Verne, he was finally engaged by police and wounded in the stomach during a shootout before being taken into custody. The reason for the shooting is not known, though it was speculated that Dornier was angry because his father had decided not to turn over the farm's management to him. Police recovered two suitcases at Dornier's farm, packed, among other things, with books and clothes, suggesting that he had planned to flee afterwards. Prime Minister Michel Rocard sent his condolences. All festivities planned for celebrating the Bastille Day on July 14 were cancelled in Baume-les-Dames and replaced with a solemn ceremony to commemorate the victims of the shooting. Dornier was kept under heavy guard in a hospital in Besançon. On July 15 he was transferred to the prison hospital in Fresnes and charged with fourteen counts of murder and eight counts of attempted murder. Two psychiatrists were appointed to examine his mental state, and in November the same year they declared that Dornier was suffering from schizophrenia, was therefore not responsible for his crimes, and should be confined in a special facility for dangerous patients. Their findings were confirmed in February 1990 and so he was declared insane and transferred from the prison in Dijon, where he was held in remand, to the mental hospital in Sarreguemines on April 18, 1991. An application by the victims' families to bring Dornier before a criminal court was dismissed on March 2, 1994. On March 16 the same year, about fifty residents of Luxiol protested against the decision in front of the court in Besançon.