Latest: Police Say Slain Officer Was Three-Decade Veteran
FOX LAKE, Ill. — Sep 1, 2015, 7:17 PM ET
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Associated Press
The latest on the fatal shooting of a police officer in northern Illinois (all times local):
3:30 p.m.
Authorities have identified the suburban Chicago police officer who was shot to death after chasing three men on foot.
Mayor Donny Schmit says that Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz had been with the Fox Lake Police Department for three decades and was the father of four sons.
The 52-year-old Gliniewicz was killed Tuesday morning in the small community about 55 miles north of Chicago. After the shooting, scores of police officers from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies scoured the area in search of the three suspects. Helicopters searched from the air and officers used bloodhounds to search on the ground.
Authorities urged residents to stay inside and had schools on lockdown.
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This item has been corrected to show the correct spelling of the officer's name.
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3:15 p.m.
Scores of residents have been confined to their homes as authorities conduct a massive hunt for three suspects in the shooting death of a suburban Chicago police officer.
In and around Fox Lake, police officers and SWAT teams in camouflage scoured the heavily wooded area as helicopters conducted a search from the sky for the three men wanted in Tuesday morning's fatal shooting of the officer.
Police have even taken people's dogs outside to relieve themselves rather than let residents do it themselves.
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Poster Comment:
Scores of residents have been confined to their homes as authorities conduct a massive hunt for three suspects in the shooting death of a suburban Chicago police officer.
What is this shit?
Every time they stage an operation these days, we're all on lockdown.
They've got another damned this coming, AFAIC.