Funeral Arrangements Set For Slain Fox Lake Police Lieutenant

The Fox Lake police lieutenant Murdered Tuesday will be laid to rest on Labor Day.

The funeral for Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz will be held at Antioch High School. Public viewing will begin at 9 a.m. and the service will start at 1 p.m. at the same location.

Following the service, the funeral procession will head to Hillside East Cemetery in Antioch.

Gliniewicz, 52, was killed shortly after he started his shift Tuesday morning. He radioed in that he had spotted two white men and a black man in a remote area of the small, northern Illinois town. Gliniewicz determined they were “suspicious” and went to confront them, police said.

Gliniewicz called for backup and said the men were running into a swamp. Two officers arrived to assist Gliniewicz and found him shot to death on the ground.

A force of 400 police officers scoured a two-square-mile area for 14 hours after Gliniewicz was killed. The search continued Wednesday with 100 police, federal agents and marshals probing a larger area of Fox Lake, and it resumed again Thursday.

Also on Thursday, George Filenko, the commander of the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force, said investigators may have obtained video of the three men wanted for killing Gliniewicz.

The video was taken by a home security camera on a residence near the scene of Gliniewicz’s murder, Filenko said. The homeowner came forward with the video Wednesday night.

The video was turned over to the Department of Homeland Security so it could be taken off a hard drive.

The homeowner provided a description of the three men to police but Filenko declined to reveal what he said. So far, police have identified the fugitives only as two white men and one black man.