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A veteran New Orleans police officer was shot and killed on Saturday, while transporting a suspect to the city jail. The suspect was reported to be at large and a search ongoing. A veteran New Orleans police officer was shot and killed early Saturday while transporting a suspect to the city jail, authorities said. The suspect escaped and was being sought by law enforcement officers.
Tyler Gamble, a spokesman for the New Orleans police department, said the officer, Daryle Holloway, was shot on Saturday morning and pronounced dead at an area hospital about half an hour later. The New Orleans police department said officer Daryle Holloway was shot while transporting the suspect, who managed to slip out of his handcuffs, grab a firearm and shoot the officer. The police vehicle then crashed into a utility pole and the suspect, Travis Boys, fled.
Police chief Michael Harrison told reporters that the suspect, 33-year-old Travis Boys, was able to get his hands out of handcuffs, grab a firearm and shoot Holloway while he was driving. Harrison said Boys came from the back seat of the car into the front seat through a hole in the cage. Emergency medical teams arrived at the scene and found Holloway in the front seat of the vehicle with an apparent gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died a short time later.
Gamble said police and other law enforcement officers including state troopers and St Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputies were searching for Boys, who was initially arrested on an aggravated assault charge. A manhunt was under way for the 33-year-old Boys, according to the police chief, Michael Harrison.
“He will be caught and he will be brought to justice for the murder of officer Holloway and for this assault on our entire community,” Harrison said in a statement issued by the police department.
Harrison said Boys came from the back seat of the vehicle into the front seat through a hole in the cage that separated front from back.
Regional and state law enforcement agencies, along with the US marshals service, were searching for Boys, who was arrested on an aggravated battery charge and outstanding warrant. The statement said Holloway was not the arresting officer.
Holloway, 45, had been a member of the New Orleans police department since 1992. He was the father of three children.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu decried the killing as “the lowest of the low”.
“Killing an officer in the line of duty is an attack on our community that will not stand,” Landrieu said in a statement. “The heart and soul of New Orleans is heavy today as our community mourns one of our city’s finest.”