Police launch late-night search in Volo, Lakemoor after suspicious-person call

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Lake County sheriff officials said early Thursday there were no suspects in custody after a new manhunt for two people was launched late Wednesday in Lakemoor and Volo, a few miles from where Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was killed.

“There is no indication at this time these two scenes are connected at this point,” said Lake County sheriff's detective Chris Covelli, referring also to a manhunt that has gone on since Tuesday morning when Gliniewicz was shot and killed in Fox Lake.

Covelli told ABC 7 Chicago that a call came in about two suspicious men in a field, which sparked the manhunt. He told her that no one was in custody.

The new manhunt began about 9:45 p.m., and air patrols began leaving the scene after 1:30 a.m.

Covelli said earlier that officers were searching a cornfield east of Route 12 and south of Route 120 in Volo. He said officers on scene said it was a suspicious-circumstances investigation.

Roads were shut down, helicopters took to the air and police set up a perimeter.

Jon Stiverson of Lakemoor said he called police to report a suspicious person between Four Season Blvd. and Rushmore Avenue in that village.

“With the Lakemoor community, you don't really see that too often, so I called it in,” he said.

“Next thing I know,” he said, “multiple officers were involved and chasing him across the apartment complex.”

Later police were seen entering a subdivision, with dogs and guns, in the area of Blossom and Four Seasons boulevards. And they were seen searching in the Meadows apartment complex on Sullivan Lake Road.

But nobody was confirmed found or in custody.

Three suspects are being sought in the shooting of Gliniewicz, in the separate manhunt that has gone on for nearly two days and nights. The Fox Lake lieutenant was killed Tuesday morning in Fox Lake after he called in for backup while he was chasing the three on foot.

• Daily Herald staff photographer Paul Valade contributed to this report.