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A veteran New Orleans police officer has been shot and killed while transporting a suspect to the city jail. A veteran New Orleans police officer was shot and killed early on 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, says Officer Daryle Holloway was shot on Saturday morning and pronounced dead at an area hospital about 30 minutes later. 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. 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. The New Orleans Police Department said Officer Daryle Holloway was shot while transporting the suspect, who managed to get his handcuffed hands from behind his back to the front, grab a firearm and shoot the officer. The police vehicle then crashed into a utility pole and the suspect, Travis Boys, fled. Emergency medical teams arrived at the scene and found Harrison 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. A manhunt was underway for the 33-year-old Boys, according to 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."
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