They’ve basically already said he used a legit FOID and was tracked by the serial number on the gun. Freaking moron to go through all the trouble to try and escape but not use a drop-gun.
So I went internetting and traced the links back from Heavy and the Independent UK which both reported the erroneous DNA factoid.
This was on the local NBC News5 Chicago site.
“The man was identified due to the rapid trace by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which took DNA recovered from the rifle found at the scene.”
Shit journalism conflating the BATF tracing and DNA collection as being identified from DNA.
I should know better and always check their links first.