New Orleans police continue manhunt after officer killed

By News on the Net —— Bio and Archives June 21, 2015

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities canvassed a New Orleans neighborhood late into Saturday night in search of the man believed to have fatally shot a police officer who was transporting him — handcuffed and in the back of a police SUV — to jail.

Saturday morning's death of veteran officer Daryle Holloway, 45, left investigators struggling for answers as they tried to cope with a colleague's death. It was unclear how the suspect got the gun, how he worked his handcuffed wrists from behind his back or why he was able to get through a barrier that separated him from the front seat. It also left New Orleans' St. Roch neighborhood on edge as body-armored officers with powerful rifles searched house-to-house for the suspect, Travis Boys, 33. More...