Iowa elias good morning and thanks for joining us for local 5 news midday. Im Elias Johnson. Elias a Campus Stabbing tops your National Headlines this morning. Elias the campus of university of california merced went on lockdownwn wednesday when a man stabbed five students. Two of the victims were airlifted to a hospital. The others treated on campus. The suspect was shot and killed. Officials havent released a motive, and its not known what relationship, if any, existed between the attacker and the victims. Elias and shocking news over the death of an Illinois Police officer. Investigators say the death of lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz has been ruled a suicide. Abcs alex perez is in fox lake, illinois with the latest from standup officer to lying thief . This morning new details about the death of lieutenant Charles Joseph gliniewicz . Authorities saying he was not killed in the line of duty as initially believed but that he instead took his own life sot chief george filenko, commander, L
Straightout homicide, especially since Police Officers deb, were going to cut you off right now. The News Conference actually just started. Lets go to fox lake. Im detective christopher covelli, covelli for the Major Crime Task force. Im joined today by commander of the lake county Major Crime Task force, chief George Filenko and lake county coroner dr. Thomas rutt. Two months have passed since the death of lieutenant. Since day one of this incident, investigators have tirelessly worked day and night, diligently searching for answers. This Investigative Team included members of the lake county Major Crime Task force as well as our federal partners, the fbi, the atf, secret service, homeland security, and the u. S. Marshals service. This was an extraordinarily complex investigation with many moving parts which resulted in over 150 separate investigators spending over 25,000 hours investigating this case. Over 430 leads were examined. Over 250 pieces of evidence were collected and submit