New Orleans police arrest suspect in killing of officer

NEW ORLEANS — After an intense 24-hour manhunt, 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 allegedly 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 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.

Authorities took Boys to a hospital for treatment of dehydration, Harrison said. Video by WDSU-TV showed Boys strapped onto a gurney and being put into an ambulance, his head slumped over.

He will be booked for 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.

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.

Authorities recovered two weapons in the police vehicle — a .38-caliber revolver that had been 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.