very strong faith community. they are praying for their officers. they are playing there is no further incidences that occurred that anyone gets hurt? but they are also, you know, circling the wagons and making sure that everybody is cooperating with law enforcement and doing what they are being told and being on the lookout for any other strange and suspicious activity. i want to ask you a question. one more question before i let you go. because again we re having this conversation and this tragedy in the wake of a tragedy that happened in texas over the weekend. we had a police officer there gunned down, killed execution style at a gas station parking lot. prosecutors there say they believe this officer was targeted for merely wearing the uniform. at this point in fox lake is there any reason to believe that officer gliniewicz was targeted? i don t believe so.
the information will continue to unfold. i believe it was an officer who was conducting surveillance on a suspicious activity and he came upon three men, perhaps, you know, the speculation is correct and he thought there were only two and he was ambushed by the third. there is no reason to think there is any race issues involved in what happened this morning. state representative barbara wheeler. representative wheeler, thank you so much and our thoughts and our prayers with the people of fox lake, specifically the family of officer charles gliniewi gliniewicz. thank you. thank you. dan moran is a reporter for the chicago tribune. he is also on the scene in fox lake. also joined by jim cavanaugh. dan, in fox lake on the ground, any new information to report right now?
and again, we should note, according to dan moran, a reporter with the chicago tribune who is at the news conference that is about the start, several of the schools that were on lockdown appear to be off lockdown. some soft students are being allowed to leave the school if their parents are picking them up. just to bring you up to speed on what happened in fox lake this morning. it was shortly after 8:00 local time, just before 8:00 local time, rather. there was an officer there, officer charles gliniewicz was on a routine patrol, noticed three guys that were suspicious or at least doing something suspicious. and he radioed he was in foot pursuit. he decided to give chase. communication with officer gliniewicz was lost shortly after that chase started. moments later back up officer arrived at the scene. found gliniewicz had been shot. we re told he died at the scene
we re use iing numerous air uni to search if in above and look below. using numerous canine units trying to sniff out and grab ahold of the scent of the offenders and numerous police officers across northern illinois as well. and we re joined by state and federal agencies as well. we re asking residents in the fox lake area to be on the alert if they see anything suspicious to dial 911 immediately. anything out of the ordinary, anything they are not used to seeing in their subdivisions. no tip is too small. and we re asking for the community s help on locating anything suspicious. at this time i m going to turn the microphone over to mayor schmidt of the village of fox lake. today not only did fox lake lose a family member. i lost a very dear friend. lieutenant gliniewicz was a 30
lieutenant joseph gliniewicz had encountered three suspicious subjects. he advised his radio communication he was out with three suspicious subjects. two mail whites and one male black. shortly thereafter lieutenant gliniewicz informed communications he was in a foot pursuit. his communications then lost contact with him. when our first responding back up units arrived at the scene, they located lieutenant gliniewicz injured with a gunshot wound. a massive search is now under way. this is a three pronged investigation. we have the aggressive search to apprehend the offenders that are at large. and again they are being described as two male whites and one male black. we have the evidence processing at the scene. and we have the investigation into exactly what occurred here today. we are using many resources.