NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) This is where it started. An EMS call of a police unit crashed into a light pole Saturday morning.
Inside, NOPD officer Daryle Holloway was dead, shot by a prisoner on what should have been a fairly routine trip from the 5th district to the jail.
“Night watched frisked boys for weapon and then turned him over to the day watch to take him to Orleans Parish Prison,” NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison explained.
Somehow, the officers missed the fact that the suspect, 33-year-old Travis Boys got into the police SUV unit with access to not one but two guns.
“We recovered two guns in addition to the officer’s gun which was not used. It was still in his holster. One of the guns was a 38 caliber gun — the same gun boys used when he was arrested. The other a 40 caliber Smith and Wesson which was used in this heinous crime,” Harrison said.
Not only that, but Boys had managed to break out of his handcuffs.
“He was able to maneuver his arms from his back to his front more than once, so this is a subject that has become proficient at eluding law enforcement,” Harrison said.
NOPD officers finally spotted Boys in a convenience store, and then getting on a city bus at the corner of St. Claude and Forestall wearing broken handcuffs.
NOPD officer Holloway was a 22-year veteran who was well known and liked.
Chief Harrison said, “He told jokes. He was the life of roll call. He was the life of the platoon. He worked community policing unit for many years. He was just that kind of guy. and you could be around him for longer than a minute or 2 without being his friend and so I’m gonna miss him. and New Orleans will miss Daryle Holloway.”