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Tremaine Wilbourn
is suspected of shooting Officer Sean Bolton, 33, multiple times
during a scuffle after the officer pulled up to a parked car and
apparently interrupted a drug deal, Memphis police said.
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office said on its Twitter feed that
Wilbourn was in custody. He turned himself in at a U.S.
Marshals' office in a federal building in Memphis, the sheriff's
department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.
"Now we hope Officer Bolton can truly rest, that his family can
begin to grieve, and that as a community we can all begin to
heal. To our brothers and sisters in Blue, we stand with you and
are always here to help!," the sheriff's office said on its
Facebook page.
A first-degree murder warrant had been issued for Wilbourn, who
was suspected of being the passenger in the vehicle. The driver
had previously turned himself in to police and was released
without charge, police said.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation placed the suspect on its
Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List on Monday, saying "Wilbourn
should be considered armed and dangerous."
Police said Wilbourn, 29, was on supervised release from prison,
where he had been serving a 10-year sentence for bank robbery.
Bolton, a former Marine, became the third Memphis police officer
to be shot and killed in the past four years.
(Reporting by Tim Ghianni; Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu
in Washington; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Doina
Chiacu and Eric Beech)
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