Officials Release Timeline in Fox Lake Officer’s Shooting

But on Tuesday morning, Lt. Gliniewicz, 52, was dead, fatally shot while in pursuit on foot of three suspects in far north suburban Fox Lake. Christopher Covelli, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, wrote in an email. “I know being a police officer, that’s what they do every day”, Cooper said. Hours after the shooting, authorities conducted a systematic grid search in a 2-mile radius around the area of Sayton Road and Route 12.

Meanwhile, the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force has taken over the main investigation and is following leads, he said.

“This is insane, they think they are hiding behind my house so I can’t go home”, Christina Barcal told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The suspects could have left town or the state, Filenko said.

Authorities are in talks with the federal government about a potential reward for information leading to the arrests of Gliniewicz’s killers. “These are the things about Joe I’m going to miss”, the mayor said.

“Based on a couple of theories that we have we believe they may have been familiar with the area where the officer eventually encountered them”, Filenko said.

During their search, police agencies fielded more than 100 tips and cleared every home in the original cordoned-off area.

The crowd dutifully obeyed a call to thank the officers and other emergency responders around them-a scene of the support for law enforcement, firefighters and paramedics that consumed America following 9/11, but only in miniature. Events unfolded quickly according to investigators’ timeline, spanning just 17 minutes.

But the vast majority of police officers are, like Gliniewicz, among our nation’s most honorable men and women, doing a job fraught with peril. She listed shootings of churchgoers at a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina, moviegoers in Louisiana, military personnel in Tennessee and two television journalists killed on the air last week in Virginia.

Lynch was referring to a series of highly public shootings nationwide in recent months affecting “all segments of our community”.

Authorities in Fox Lake, 55 miles n… He was a leader of the Fox Lake Police Department Explorer Post, which helps mentor young people interested in careers in law enforcement, and an Army veteran who served in active duty and reserve from 1980 to 2007. “A void that can never be filled”.

Fox Lake was much quieter today than yesterday.

School officials are anxious, too.

“But if it were me, I’d be long gone”, she said of the suspects.

Fox Lake area schools were closed on Wednesday due to police activity.

Gliniewicz, was patrolling in an industrial area in the suburb of Fox Lake shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, said Lake County, Ill., Sheriff’s Department spokesman Chris Covelli.

Police established a perimeter as they sought the three suspects, one described by law enforcement as a black male and two described as white males.

“We’re not searching in an enclosed perimeter area anymore”, Covelli said. Covelli says there is also a heavy police presence in the community meant to reassure residents of their safety.