Illinois manhunt continues as U.S. attorney general condemns gun violence
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Illinois manhunt continues as U.S. attorney general condemns gun violence
The manhunt for suspects in the shooting of an Illinois police officer has “absolutely not” been called off, a Lake County sheriff’s spokesman said on Wednesday, refuting an earlier CNN report that the search had ended. Even with 100 investigators on the ground for a second day, authorities in northern Illinois acknowledge they have no indication that three suspects wanted in the gun-slaying of an officer are still in the area. Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko says the officer provided no concrete description of the men he was pursuing on foot before he was shot, except to tell dispatchers that two of them were white and one was black.
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Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has condemned the recent fatal shooting of police officers in Illinois and Texas, telling a housing conference in Washington that violence against “all of us, regardless of what uniform any of us wear” must end. She strongly condemned the “recent and brutal” killings, saying, “Our hearts are broken over this.” Lynch was referring to a series of highly public shootings nationwide in recent months affecting “all segments of our community.” She says it’s a “sad fact now” that no one is safe. She listed the recent shootings in Charleston, Louisiana, Tennessee and Virginia.
