Other people are believed to have been with Boys in the vehicle when it crashed, Harrison said. It’s not clear whether he got help breaking his handcuffs.
Holloway, 45, had been a member of the New Orleans Police Department since 1992.
After the shooting Saturday his vehicle careened into an electric pole. Emergency medical personnel called to the scene transported him to the hospital where he later died.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who spoke to reporters Sunday along with Harrison, described the officer’s killing as a “despicable and cowardly act.”
“He was more than a great cop. He was a good man. He was a good father. Our hearts break for him and his children on Father’s Day,” he said.
Harrison said Holloway joined the department a year after he himself did so.
“Until yesterday, he was a guy who was full of life. He told jokes … You couldn’t be around him for more than a minute or two and he would become your friend,” said Harrison.
Harrison said Saturday that he met with two of Holloway’s three children and Holloway’s former wife at the hospital after he died. “As a new chief, it was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life,” said Harrison, who became chief last year.
The last New Orleans Police Department officer killed in the line of duty was Officer Rodney Thomas on July 7, 2013, according to police spokesman Tyler Gamble.
More recently, a Housing Authority police officer, James Bennett Jr., 45, was found shot to death in his patrol car.
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