A massive manhunt is underway in suburban Illinois after three suspects reportedly shot and killed a police officer.
According to a report from Chicago station WGN, police are searching for three armed suspects, one black man and two white men, near Fox Lake, Ill, a township of 10,000 about an hour an a half outside of Chicago.
The officer was on a routine patrol around 8 a.m. CT when he went to investigate “suspicious activity,” a Lake County Sheriff’s spokesman said. The officer radioed that he was beginning a foot pursuit before communication was lost, the Chicago Tribune reported. The officer was found wounded when a backup officer arrived, and he died at the scene.
The officer was found stripped of his gun, pepper spray, and other gear. Lake County Sheriff Chief Doug Larsson told NBC Chicago that the suspects are armed with a pistol.
BuzzFeed News reported the officer had pulled over the three suspects for a traffic stop, a report that conflicted with local news media accounts.
Lake County Detective Christopher Covelli declined to say how many times the officer had been shot during an interview on CNN. The network reported that the officer was a 32-year veteran of the force.
Officer are pursuing the suspects with helicopters and K-9 units. The FBI and U.S. marshals are also involved in the search.
A local high school was put on lockdown because of the manhunt, and service on Metra’s Milwaukee District North Line has also temporarily been suspended.
Still on the hunt. Going door to door again too. #FoxLake pic.twitter.com/Qc1yOsKTfA
— Jason Schweitzer (@JSchweitzer19) September 1, 2015
This post has been updated.
Thanks Obama!
sigh…
White guys were involved and they are reporting on it??? Oh wait there was a black guy involved, now I understand…never mind.
OK, This, will be his Katrina!
His Waterloo even!!! And just in case anyone missed how insane the reactionary right has gotten on these issues:
http://video.foxnews.com /v/4455528613001/has-the-obama-administration-started-a-war-against-police/?intcmp=hpvid1#sp=show-clips
(copy and paste it…take out the space after “.com”…it wouldn’t work as a link for some reason)
It really comes down to this:
If it’s minorities and their communities, the Teatroll want a violently fascist police force subjugating the citizenry, keeping them in their place and learnin’ 'em what for…and if they get shot with their hands up for being uppity, talking back and failing to obey, then hey, that’s their own fault.
If it’s anything like mundane, routine military exercises anywhere within the vague proximity of white people and white communities, then it’s tinfoil hat conspiracy freakout time over potential martial law and tyranny…not to mention if you send some innocent officers just doing their jobs to enforce lawful court orders to some white guy’s ranch, then they’ll all applaud those white folks pointing hunting guns and sniper rifles at said law enforcement and making threats to shoot them.
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/08/31/dekalb-co-police-officer-shot/71492826/
Upon entry, the officers encountered a dog. Two officers fired their weapons striking and killing the animal. A male in the home, later determined to be the homeowner, was also shot by the responding officers.
One of the police officers was shot. The G.B.I. says their early investigation indicates the officer was likely shot accidentally by one of the other officers at the scene.
Guess it is different when they shoot their own