Posted on 06/21/2015 9:57:13 AM PDT by jazusamo
New Orleans police announced Sunday that they have arrested the man suspected of killing a police officer who was transporting him to jail a day earlier, ending a nearly 24-hour manhunt that left residents on edge.
The city’s police department said Travis Boys, 33, was arrested Sunday morning near the intersection of Reynes St. and St. Claude Ave.
Investigators said Boys, sitting in the back of the police cruiser Saturday morning, somehow obtained a gun as he was handcuffed behind his back and got through a barrier that separated him from the front seat of the vehicle. Boys then shot veteran officer Daryle Holloway, 45, causing the cruiser to crash into a utility pole, police said, according to WVUE. Boys escaped on foot after the crash.
Police Chief Michael Harrison said Boys got to the front seat through an opening in the cage that separates the front and back seats.
"Officer Holloway put up a fight to try to get the subject to not exit the vehicle but succumbed to his injuries," Harrison said.
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Somehow got a gun?
Yeah, I think high school students could write better.
Yesterday they said the killer slipped out of the cuffs and got the officers gun.
Bad Boys. Bad Boys. Whatcha gonna do...
Revrund Charlatan please pick up the white phone!
From previous accounts, he slipped his cuffs and then attacked the officer through a hole in the barrier between the front and back seats.
That’s racist!
I have a feeling he may well “Hang himself” in jail. I wouldn’t want to be in a New Orleans Jail after killing a cop, better to have hit the swamps and taken his chances with the gators—they might have been more merciful than the police!
Deys no black fones ...
I guess times have changed. When I lived in NOLA many years ago, this suspected cop killer would have been killed while resisting arrest.
Yep, very surprised they took him alive.
After the Chief saying “he’ll pay for this” I’ve no doubt he will but it’s going to cost taxpayers a lot.
Police officers always carry a backup weapon.
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