explorer post. you couldn t come to an event in fox lake, and for the viewers that might not know, this is a very tight-knit community, very beautiful in a chain of lakes. you couldn t come to an event and not see joe. he was very much a fabric of the community. that s why the community is literally they re just reeling from what happened. and i do believe that this family will come together and wile have a vigil this evening to remember joe and make sure we re rallying behind his family. thank you for sharing information with us. we are certainly sorry for your loss. give us a sense of where this manhunt for the suspects, who are sought in connection with the murder of officers gliniewicz. what is the status of it? well, i too am over here at the police station as well. i can tell you we have so many
different assets, federal assets that are here on the ground. we ve got multiple police departments from all over the area, phone calls have been flooding in from people. i was in the station earlier today when an air marshal came in. there s a tremendous amount of assets, k-9 units, air support on this hunt to make sure we ll be vigilant. that s one of the things that the chief of the major crimes task force earlier said, they will be tenacious and not let this rest until these three suspects are in custody. do you have any information on who they were? what they were stopped for? i don t have any of that information that i m able to share with you, unfortunately. i just don t have that at this time. local media is reporting that lieutenant gliniewicz s gun was found at the scene of the shooting, it wasn t taken from the scene. do you have any information on that? what i can tell you is only
somebody brags about this, how they killed this officer, or one of the three gets arrested at a future date for something else, let s say and trying to cut a deand say, hey, i know who killed the officer, let s cut a deal. you can have many scenarios that would lead to the police getting the information. you also have the intelligence effort by the police to go back over other offenses over the years, especially in northern illinois and in the chicago metro area, where there might have been a gang of two whites and a black man that committed various crimes together. so you might have a bit of lead information about a group made up that way. but there s a lot of aspects that could lead to information leading to their arrest. tom, why would police officials not disclose and they ve been asked, if officer gliniewicz s gun was found at the scene? why wouldn t they answer that question? i m not sure, and i think
reporter: well, we know more than 100 investigators are spread throughout the state. we went through the entire neighborhood, not just by air, but by boat and ground to see what s going on. you can tell there s a difference in terms of the perimeter that was set up, the massive perimeter, as more than dozens of officers flooded into the area to look for the three suspects. right now that perimeter has been relaxed. we know they dropped and changed the way they were doing the tactics here. we did talk about surveillance. we talked to business owners, so we know investigators are scouring through all the images to try to find better descriptions of the suspects. if you look behind me, you can see the growing memorial. people have been coming through all afternoon to pay their railroadses to officer gliniewicz, because he is someone they knew, 32 years a man they called g.i. joe. one thing we noticed from the aerial view, we didn t see the canines and other people who are out there on t
in illinois. we have cnn tom fuentes joining us. he s a former fbi assistant director. so, tom, can you tell us what information officials might have that would prompt them to close this search in one area, rather small area, but then broaden the search elsewhere? i think once the officer was found dead at 8:00 a.m. yesterday morning, a two-mile perimeter, it would have taken these fugitives about 30 minutes to walk two miles and get beyond that perimeter. so if they ve already searched that area thoroughly and they re pretty convinced they re not hidden in a house or shack or cabin somewhere within that perimeter, it would be time to expand and move on, especially now this far into the investigation. we don t have information about the traffic stop, other than what officer gliniewicz radioed in that he was following