Police seek man in surveillance photos in connection with lawyer's strangulation death
Surveillance photos released by the Northbrook Police Department.
Police in the suburban Chicago town of Northbrook have released surveillance photos of a person of interest in the December strangulation death of a 36-year-old lawyer.
The photos show a man using a cane, dressed in a trench coat and hat, the Northbrook Star reports. Police say he is a person of interest in the death of real-estate lawyer Jigar Patel.
Police have said Patel was the intended target, and the Dec. 7 murder is an isolated case, according to previous coverage by the Northbrook Star.
Police showed surveillance photos to building tenants. Ralph Cram, of Envoy Leasing Partners, told the Northbrook Star he saw the photos. He said the man pictured seemed to face away from the camera. “The guy knew where the video cameras were,” Cram said. “He knew how to approach the elevator and the stairs without turning his head up to the camera.”
Cram also said other tenants told him that Patel was expecting to see a client on the afternoon he died.
Northbrook Police Department Investigations Cmdr. Mike O’Malley told the Star that the man captured on surveillance cameras is a person of interest “based on the time he was at the building, and based on the fact that no one we interviewed knew who he was.”
O’Malley said evidence is being examined at the crime lab, and police are awaiting results. He also said police are “waiting on returns of search warrants as the investigation continues.”
