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The Lake County
Sheriff's Office plans a news conference on Wednesday to discuss
new items of "significant interest" concerning the results of
its investigation into the death of Lieutenant Charles Joseph
Gliniewicz. It said in a news release it would not speak about
the case until the news conference.
The newspaper said multiple law enforcement sources have said
that the sheriff's office will announce that the death was a
suicide.
A few weeks after the incident, authorities investigated the
case as a homicide but did not rule out the possibility of
suicide, Lake County Major Crime Task Force Commander George
Filenko said.
The shooting drew hundreds of local, state and federal officers
to search in and around Fox Lake, about 60 miles (100 kms) north
of Chicago and near the Wisconsin border.
Gliniewicz was shot twice with his weapon, once in the right
side of the front of his protective vest, which was severe
enough to incapacitate him, and the other, believed to be the
fatal wound, struck him in the upper left chest, authorities
said.
Gliniewicz had told dispatchers he was pursuing suspects.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas)
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