Manhunt goes on for suspects in Ill.

Associated Press

FOX LAKE, Ill.

The manhunt for three suspects wanted in the killing of an Illinois police officer threatened Thursday to dampen the Labor Day weekend across one of the state’s most-popular recreational areas, a boating and fishing playground known as the Chain O’ Lakes.

The region normally draws tens of thousands of visitors for end-of-summer fun, but concerns mounted that tourists might decide to go elsewhere because of the heavy police presence and fear that the fugitives could be hiding somewhere in the lush landscape of lakes, wetlands and forest glens.

Also Thursday, authorities said they had recovered video from a homeowner’s security system that could provide clues in the search for the three men suspected in the slaying of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz.

The homeowner told investigators the video shows three people near the scene of the shooting. The recording was turned over to the Department of Homeland Security for analysis, said Lake County Major Crime Task Force Cmdr. George Filenko.

Searchers have been hampered by the lack of a description of the suspects beyond the vague one that came from the officer, who told dispatchers only that he was pursuing three suspicious men – two white, one black – moments before he was shot.