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[h=4]Manhunt expanded for Chicago-area cop killers[/h]The manhunt was expanded Wednesday for three suspects sought in the fatal shooting of a veteran police officer in a quiet village 60 miles north of the city.
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Dozens of heavily-armed police officers along with helicopters and search dogs are hunting for three suspects in Northern Illinois, one day after a police officer was shot and killed. (Sept. 2) AP
A police officer uses his scope to search for suspects in the shooting of a police officer, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 in Fox Lake, Ill.(Photo: Brian Hill, AP)
CHICAGO — The manhunt was expanded Wednesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for three suspects sought in the fatal shooting of a <span style="color: Red;">*</span>veteran police officer in a quiet village 60 miles north of the city.
Lake County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Christopher Covelli on Wednesday said that roughly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>400 officers from numerous departments conducted an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>exhaustive search of the immediate area of the shooting Tuesday and that the Illinois State Police and sheriff's department had beefed up patrols in the area in the second day of the search.
Police announced late Tuesday that they released a "secure perimeter" that they had established<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the area near the scene of the shooting after 14 hours of intense searching failed to lead to the suspects.
"We no longer believe the suspects are in the secure perimeter area," Covelli said.
The killing in Fox Lake<span style="color: Red;">*</span>marks the fourth tragedy in nine days across the USA<span style="color: Red;">*</span>where a law enforcement officer has been slain<span style="color: Red;">*</span>while going about his regular duties.
The incident in the far north Chicago suburbs comes after a Harris County, Texas, sheriff's deputy was gunned down Friday as he fueled his patrol car.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Police on Saturday arrested Shannon Miles, who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they said shot 15 bullets into Deputy Darren Goforth, 47.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sheriff Ron Hickman<span style="color: Red;">*</span>described the killing as a "cold-blooded<span style="color: Red;">*</span>assassination."
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On Aug. 26, police officer Henry Nelson was gunned down in Sunset, La. Two days earlier,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, of the Louisiana State Police,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was shot in the head<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and then taunted after he stopped to provide aid to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Police said a witness to the fatal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shooting<span style="color: Red;">*</span>heard the suspect tell the trooper<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after he shot him,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"You're lucky, you are going to die soon."
In the most recent incident in Fox Lake, Ill., Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was shot and killed while pursuing a group of suspicious men. Police with helicopters and dogs conducted a massive manhunt in northern Illinois for suspects in the death of the veteran cop<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and a father of four sons.
Despite the spate of recent killings, the number of law enforcement officers killed by gunfire while on duty<span style="color: Red;">*</span>this year<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— 23 as of Aug. 31,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>according to the Officer Down Memorial Page<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— is less than the same time period in 2014, when 29<span style="color: Red;">*</span>law enforcement officers died by gunfire.
Gliniewicz,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>was patrolling<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in an industrial area in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the suburb of Fox Lake shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, Covelli said. The officer radioed dispatch to say<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that he was going<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to check on suspicious activity he had spotted. Covelli declined to specify what the suspicious activity was.
Moments later, Gliniewicz<span style="color: Red;">*</span>radioed that he was pursuing suspects by foot, but communication was lost soon after that. Police officers who had been dispatched to scene found the wounded Gliniewicz laying in a marshy area.
Mayor Donny Schmit, the top<span style="color: Red;">*</span>elected official of the town of 10,000, recalled Gliniewicz as an officer with more than 30 years of policing experience who was fondly nicknamed "G.I. Joe." Gliniewicz, he said, was the father of four boys.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"His commitment to the people in the community was unmatched and will be dearly missed," Schmit <span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
Police have publicly offered scant description of the three suspects. One is described as a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>black male and two are described as white males.
Shortly before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, SWAT officers from several agencies honed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in on one house in Fox Lake where they had information that one or more suspects might be holed up, a law enforcement source who was not authorized to speak publicly said. But that search proved to be fruitless.
The manhunt disrupted train service on Metra's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Milwaukee District North Line, and officials at nearby<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Grant Community High School<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said they were ordered by police to keep students inside the school. Students at Fox Lake schools also kept students an hour beyond the regularly scheduled dismissal time out of caution.
Several area schools announced that they would cancel classes on Wednesday as police said they would continue "saturation patrols" in Fox Lake. Law enforcement officials said that they would increase their presence near<span style="color: Red;">*</span>schools in the area that will remain open.
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