Gliniewicz was planning to retire at the end of the month and had just met Monday with the mayor to ensure that the Explorer post would go on. The officer had described via radio three men he encountered shortly before the shooting.
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Although Filenko would not say if the videos show all three suspects, he said “we have images of people that we believe are subjects that we’d be interested in talking to”.
Filenko said the task force expected results back from the video as soon as Thursday evening. “It tied up a number of resources, including my detectives”, Filenko said.
Filenko has more than 100 people actively deployed to investigate on the ground. “We tried to view it last night”.
We continue to mourn with and pray for Gliniewicz’s loved ones.
That’s despite a five-hour manhunt on the Volo-Lakemoor border that Lake County sheriff’s Detective Christopher Covelli called a “wasted” response to a false alarm. He indicated investigators also received new sources of video.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation has the technology to put these videos in sequential order”, Filenko said.
Police officers with dogs conducted systematic searches with air support, although there was no evidence the report was related to the shooting suspects, Covelli said.
The lieutenant’s handgun has been recovered, Filenko added, and is being analyzed. The caller said the two men, spooked that she was calling police, fled into a cornfield.
In the news conference on Friday, Fox Lake officials indicated Motorola Solutions had pledged the $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
Asked by CBS News correspondent Anna Werner how unsafe the suspects are, Filenko replied, “They shot a police officer, so I think that speaks for itself – extremely risky”. Dispatchers soon lost contact with him, and backup officers found him about 50 yards from his squad auto with a gunshot wound.
Police announced Friday they now have more video from home and business surveillance systems.
So far, police have found no witnesses.
Filenko said there was no indication he was intentionally targeted, though authorities did not rule out that possibility. She said she then was approached by two men, one black and one white.
But after hours of searching, police said, they discovered she had made the story up.
It wasn’t clear if Kiefer had an attorney who could comment on her behalf. The funeral will be at 1 p.m.at the high school, 1133 Main St., and a procession after the service will lead to a burial at Hillside East Cemetery, also in Antioch.
Kiefer later admitted that she fabricated the account, the sheriff’s office said, because “she wanted attention from a family where she was employed as a nanny”. She is now in jail pending a bond hearing. Mourners gather during a vigil at Lakefront Park to honor Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, Wednesday, September 2, 2015, in Fox Lake, Ill. Emotions on both sides are high after numerous incidents of misconduct by police officers and violent attacks on police officers.
He was a husband and father of four.
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“Joe was my best friend and my world. My hero”, Melodie Gliniewicz said.
