NOLA police arrest man in cop’s killing

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS

After an intense 24-hour manhunt, New Orleans police Sunday arrested a man believed to have shot and killed a police officer while wearing handcuffs as he was being transported to jail.

But questions remain about where the gun he used to kill Officer Daryle Holloway, 45, came from and how he hid from a law-enforcement search that included canine, SWAT and helicopter teams.

Travis Boys, 33, was wearing his broken handcuffs when a rookie officer and his trainer saw him trying to board a city bus Sunday morning, said Police Superintendent Michael Harrison.

“To my understanding, he got on the bus after spotting the officers. And the officers saw that, and then he got off the bus and then was apprehended,” Harrison told reporters.

Authorities took Boys to a hospital for treatment of apparent dehydration, Harrison said. He will be booked with first-degree murder of a police officer, aggravated escape and illegal possession of a firearm, as well as the aggravated-battery charge for which he originally was arrested Friday night, Harrison said.

Harrison said authorities are investigating how he got the gun that was used to shoot the officer. The officer’s gun was in his holster and not used, Harrison said.

Authorities recovered two weapons in the police vehicle – a .38-caliber revolver used in the initial aggravated battery for which Boys had been arrested and a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson that was used to shoot the officer, Harrison said.