re: NOPD officer accused of withholding evidence related to Daryle Holloway death in

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Did he have some beef with the cop that got killed.

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Doesn't seem logical, as Officer Johnson would have no way of knowing that Officer Holloway would eventually attempt to transport Boys to Central Lockup.

But this article gives a pretty good summary of what's happened so far.

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So Officer Johnson and Officer Morgan respond to a domestic disturbance call. Boys' wife claims Boys shot at her with a .40 caliber weapon. Boys' wife hands Johnson a box of .40 caliber bullets from her home that belongs to Boys. Johnson brings to evidence neither the box of bullets, nor a .40 caliber firearm. They arrest Boys for aggravated assault and bring him to the 5th District station for questioning.

Officer Holloway volunteers to keep watch of Boys and transport him to Central Lockup.

En route Boys, handcuffed behind his back, somehow gets his hands to the front and shoots Holloway in his torso with a .40 caliber firearm and squeezes through the partition in the squad car to escape.

The next day, an NOPD recruit and his trainer spot Boys getting onto a public bus, with cuffs still on his wrists, the chain broken. Boys is arrested for the murder of Officer Holloway.

When a supervisor noticed that Officer Johnson didn't mention the box of bullets in his initial report, Johnson is brought in for questioning. After denying knowing the whereabouts of the box of bullets, Johnson leaves the interrogation to go pick up his child. NOPD detectives tail Johnson, and he is observed pulling over and grabbing a box of bullets from his trunk. Detectives then lose track of him for a while, until later catching up with him.

When he returned to the station for questioning, he is confronted about the bullets. After initially again denying knowledge of the box, he later admits that he took the box from his trunk and later discarded them in a nearby canal.

That's pretty much where we are now.

The biggest question right now seems to be, why did Officer Johnson intentionally violate protocol and withhold/tamper with evidence? And why did Boys have access to a .40 caliber firearm when he was transported to Central Lockup by Holloway?

Here's another potentially interesting twist in the story from last week (mentioned briefly earlier in this thread).

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