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[h=4]Police have few details on Illinois cop-killer suspects[/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 on Sept. 1, 2015, in Fox Lake, Ill.(Photo: Brian Hill, AP)
Law enforcement officers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Fox Lake, Ill., combed through hours of private surveillance video and followed up on dozens of tips from citizens Wednesday as they searched for three men<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they believe were responsible for gunning down a veteran police officer in a sleepy community 60 miles north of Chicago.
But so far investigators say they have little substantive information in their hunt for the suspects in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the shooting death<span style="color: Red;">*</span>of Fox Lake Police<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz more than 24 hours after he was killed.
After initially focusing on a small industrial area near where<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gliniewicz was fatally wounded, Lake County, Ill., Major Crime<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Task Force Commander George Filenko said they believe the suspects are unlikely to be in the immediate area but urged area residents to remain vigilant for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>anyone who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>may be acting suspiciously.
Police have few details about the suspects, but Filenko said investigators are<span style="color: Red;">*</span>determined to track down the men.
"I'm not going to set a timeline on this," Filenko told reporters on Wednesday afternoon. "I have a murdered colleague, a police officer. We're not going to stop."
Filenko said that police, backed by hundreds of federal, state and local agents, were conducting a secondary search of the sparse industrial area that includes several abandoned buildings. Filenko said an autopsy of Gliniewicz was completed late Tuesday, but he declined to release details of the medical examiner's report.
Roughly<span style="color: Red;">*</span>400 officers from numerous area departments conducted an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>exhaustive search of the immediate area of the shooting Tuesday. The Illinois State Police and sheriff's department also<span style="color: Red;">*</span>beefed up patrols in the second day of the search.
Police announced late Tuesday that they released a "secure perimeter" 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," said Sgt. Christopher Covelli, a spokesman for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
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.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The officer radioed dispatch to sayt he was going<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to check on suspicious activity he had spotted. He<span style="color: Red;">*</span>requested backup about three minutes after initially spotting the men, and the responding officers got to the area<span style="color: Red;">*</span>six minutes later,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>according to police. The responding officers found<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gliniewicz's body lying in a marshy area.
Filenko said Wednesday that police didn't have specific details on what may have raised<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gliniewicz's suspicions<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but suggested the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fact that the men were spotted in a desolate area may have piqued the officer's attention.
"If you're driving down a roadway that's got nothing but open fields, possibly abandoned businesses and you see three individuals there that have no reason for being there, it would be fundamental police procedure to stop and at least question why they are there," Filenko said.
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 say they know from Gliniewicz's call in to dispatch that two of the suspects were white and one is black. Filenko said Wednesday that investigators did not have further details about the suspects' identities.
Several area schools canceled classes on Wednesday as police continued "saturation patrols" in Fox Lake. Law enforcement officials said that they increased their presence near<span style="color: Red;">*</span>schools in the area that remained open.
Fox Lake officials were planning to hold a vigil on Wednesday evening to allow the community to grieve and honor the fallen officer.
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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Manhunt intensifies near Chicago: What we know
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<span style="color: Red;">*</span>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."
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.
Some law enforcement officials, however, expressed concern<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that in the aftermath of several high-profile police-involved shootings throughout the country<span style="color: Red;">*</span>cops on the street are becoming reluctant<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to use force, even when necessary.
Richard Beary, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, noted a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>case from early August in which<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a Birmingham, Ala., police detective had his gun taken away and was beaten unconscious by a felon.
"He didn't want to use force because of the ridicule of the public," he said. "We're seeing that in many cases."
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