Wednesday’s statement from the village said the “clean slate” review is “standard and considered a best practice whenever there is a change in leadership at a law enforcement agency”.
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Lt. Charles (Joe) Gliniewicz died after chasing down three suspects September 1.
Also in the release, Lake County Undersheriff Raymond Rose went so far as to call Rudd’s actions “completely outside of policy, procedure, protocols, and are completely unprofessional”, and strongly criticized what he called speculation from Rudd about what happened at the crime scene.
Officials leading the investigation into the shooting death of a northern Illinois police officer are asking a coroner to stop releasing information that could “jeopardize” their case. After the officer’s death, the village “immediately made available to the Lake County Major Crime Task Force all the materials based on this review and other pertinent information in order to assist investigators”. The police say they only know that two of them are white and one is black.
Rudd would not comment on what evidence made him favor homicide.
An Illinois police officer found dead last week after telling dispatchers he was pursuing three suspicious men suffered a “single devastating” gunshot wound, according to a coroner who said he can’t yet rule whether the death was a homicide, suicide or an accident.
“I can’t issue a manner of death until law enforcement gives me everything they have”. Filenko has also declined to reveal if postmortem testing showed Gliniewicz fired a gun.
Gliniewicz was laid to rest Monday following a funeral attended by Gov. Bruce Rauner and thousands of officers from across the country.
Police are pursuing the case as a homicide as they await the results of ballistics tests. But they did confirm that his gun was found near his body. It was later discovered at the scene.
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Meanwhile, the Fox Lake police department is conducting an internal investigation after the retirement of Chief Michael Behan just three days before the killing. However, later Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported Rudd said the fatal wound was to Gliniewicz’s torso.
