Investigators said Tuesday that three men seen in a video from a home near where a northern Illinois police officer was fatally shot were not involved in the slaying.
The announcement by the leader of the task force investigating last week's killing of Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz dashed hopes for what authorities had called a promising lead into the identities of the suspects.
Lake County Major Crime Task Force commander George Filenko says investigators questioned the three men in the video and are confident they were not involved in the slaying.
Filenko also said investigators are working to identify DNA from an ``unknown donor'' found at the scene. That’s in addition to Gliniewicz’s gun and other evidence recovered earlier.
Gliniewicz was found shot to death Sept. 1 in a remote area shortly after he radioed that he was pursuing three suspicious men. There’s a $50,000 reward for information that leads to their arrest. The FBI has set up a tip line at 1-800-call-FBI.
