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 The death of Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz
is a homicide investigation but the possibility of suicide had not
been ruled out, 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, which is about 60 miles (97 km) north
of Chicago 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, Filenko said.
Gunshot residue tests showed that weapon could have been fired by
Gliniewicz, or that he could have been in the close proximity of the
weapon, Filenko said.
 "It's inconclusive," Filenko said. "At this point, we have no
motive."
Authorities found nine unknown DNA samples at the crime scene on a
variety of items in Gliniewicz's possession, Filenko said.
Police have said Gliniewicz was pursuing three suspects, who he
described as two white men and a black man, on foot in a remote area
when he was shot. It's the only description of the suspects
officials have, Filenko said on Thursday.
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Gliniewicz initially declined a dispatcher's offer to send more
officers, then accepted an offer for a second unit to be sent when
the dispatcher asked again, Filenko said.
He had been walking in the area for about 20 minutes before making
the call to dispatchers, Filenko said.
Several weeks before the shooting, Gliniewicz had met with village
officials about complaints of vandalism, squatters and suspicious
activity in that area and took responsibility to investigate,
Filenko said.
(Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago; Editing by Susan Heavey
and Bill Trott)
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