NEW ORLEANS, L.A.– A veteran New Orleans police officer has been shot and killed while transporting a suspect to the city jail.
Β
Tyler Gamble, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department, says Officer Daryle Holloway was shot Saturday morning and pronounced dead at an area hospital about a half-hour later.Β
Β
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 says Boys came from the back seat into the front seat through a hole in the cage.
Β
Gamble says police and other law enforcement, including state troopers, St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s deputies are searching for Boys, who was initially arrested on an aggravated assault charge.
Β
