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[h=4]Police say they have few details on Ill. cop-killer suspects identities[/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 in Fox Lake, Ill. on Wednesday said they were combing through hours of private surveillance video and following up on dozens of tips from citizens as they search for three suspects 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 men they believe are responsible for 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>Gliniewiczwas fatally wounded, Lake County, Ill. Major Crime<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Task Force Commander George Filenko said they believe the suspects are unlikely in the immediate area but urged area residents to remain vigilant on anyone that may be acting suspiciously.
While the hunt for the suspects has proved to be fruitless thus far, Filenko said investigators remained determined to track down the suspects, who police have few details about.
"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 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 they say are responsible for the killing of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gliniewicz
"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 say<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that he was going<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to check on suspicious activity he had spotted.
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 the scene found the wounded Gliniewicz laying in a marshy area.
Filenko said Wednesday that police didn't have specific detail on what may have raised<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gliniewicz's suspicions, but suggested that fact 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 the 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.
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, 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.
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>that 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, where 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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