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New Orleans Police: Man Suspected In Cop's Death Caught Boarding City Bus, Handcuffs Still On
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.
Travis Boys, 33, was still wearing his broken handcuffs when a rookie officer and his trainer spotted 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, while standing in front of a memorial to the city's fallen police officers.
But questions remain about where the gun used to kill Officer Daryle Holloway, 45, came from and how Boys hid from an intense law enforcement search.
Authorities took Boys to a hospital for treatment of apparent dehydration, Harrison said. Video by WVUE-TV showed Boys strapped onto a gurney and being put into an ambulance, his head slumped over.
He will be booked on charges of 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 was originally arrested on Friday night, Harrison said.
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