the middle of a work day and people can go and just walk around if there s no adequate description it will be very difficult. tom, stay with me. we ll get a quick break in after we recap what s happened just in to cnn. this police officer who was shot by shot near chicago about an hour northwest of chicago has died. we re learning that now from a source and it s been confirmed for us by the lake county sheriff s department which is overseeing this investigation in this manhunt. this normally peaceful, affluent, residential community facing a massive manhunt right now. schools under lockdown, police officers are going door to door. we ll talk with our law enforcement analyst about this manhunt after a quick break. i brought in some protein to help rearrange the fridge and get us energized! i m new ensure active high protein.
hope there s enough of a description that they know what they re looking for. i m not sure how the dogs would be able to determine what scent to follow in that situation but s if they bring canine units out there but the question is going to be what kind of description? was he on some kind of surveillance? did he have some indication [ inaudible ] in progress, let s say. we are losing tom there. tom, stay with me, we ll try to make sure we get a better connection with you but i want to bring deb feyerick back in. deb, this is a suburb. this is where a lot of people live. there are a lot of families there. we understand that some of the schools in the area are on lockdown at this point. there are local reports that we verified, gavin school district said it s on soft lockdown status. there are other schools in nearby suburbs that are on lockdown status as well. do we know anything about what
all right. do we have ryan young on the we have our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes joining us now on the phone. tom, this is what we have just learned. that this police officer was killed at the scene. give you give us a sense? it seems like this is something that has been known now for a couple hours and there s obviously been a delay in authorities putting it out there. what is the rationale behind that? well, probably notification of next of kin, brianna. i heard the same reporting that the officer had been killed but didn t want to say so on the air or confirm it until cnn or the police department was able to confirm it. i would think if this officer has family they re trying to locate the family and speak to them.
these three men and all of that clearly under consideration and under investigation. but we do know the sheriffs are involved. the atf is involved. you have local police. this is a community and everybody has been warned to stay indoors. you ve got canines that are being used which does indicate that at least they do have some belief, authorities, that, in fact, these three men are on foot. there s also air surveillance, you can see the helicopter looking for these three men. whether they stay together, whether they split up, that will clearly complicate the search. but now a big manhunt under way. three suspects, two of them described as white. another male, african-american. stay with us, tom fen toesue joining us on the phone. at this point authorities are