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A far bedroom community from chicago. just from hearing that, that this is very much out of the norm in this area, you have three suspects, two white, one black, what can we ascertain perhaps that was a motive behind this? they were seen around a building acting suspiciously and caused the officer to move forward. this is very much out of the ordinary for the area. what can we ascertain from the suspects and what might the motives be or react to killing a police officer? >> well, that's part of what this fugitive task force is looking at right now. what brought this about? as you suggest, luke...

Police officers going street by street, using canines and using air surveillance but beyond the perimeter, it's about getting the message out to others, surrounding states, surrounding communities so people are aware of what's occurred and to be on the lookout. at this point, there's not a lot to go on. we don't have a good physical description. we don't have identification of a particular vehicle so it really is looking for anomalous behavior and that's a rough thing to go on for law enforcement or the community. the citizens. not a lot of information at this point, luke. i think that those o...

Hide, escape. not if they're in a vehicle, on foot. you know, they're human instincts turn into animal instincts. desperate people do desperate things. they're armed with the officer's handgun. not sure if he was shot or how he was killed. these are questions that have i'm sure law enforcement has answers to but, you know, it's a full-court press until these three are in custody and i'm hoping they they have cooperators, maybe witnesses or somebody stepped up and knew the three individuals and a matter of time before the public is made aware of who they are and their identified to law enforcem...

Something to children, it's -- they'll be able to do that i think before night falls and pretty routine. we don't know if the killers busted the area right off because they didn't go there on foot and it sounds to me like they were interrupted in the process of committing a crime, could have been a burglary, a drug deal and trying to steal something, they might have been plotting something and that's when the officer came upon them. they fled on foot. and of course, they ambushed him in the woods apparently. the way they do that is they could have had firearms or even one of them hides behind ...

Christian farr. i want to bring back lenny depaul, former u.s. marshal and on the phone msnbc law enforcement analyst jim cavanaugh, a former atf special agent. lenny, starting with you, we're coming now within an hour when school would ordinarily be let out in that area, schools have been on the lockdown, the entire town is on lockdown. i presume for the benefit of this manhunt and this search. i'm sorry. i want to go to jim with this question. i presume, jim, for the benefit of this search that you would from a law enforcement perspective went to keep the schools locked down and would want t...