The man wanted for gunning down a Memphis police officer Sean Bolton is now in custody.
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Visitation for Officer Sean Bolton, a Marine who served in Iraq, is scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Twenty-nine-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn is suspected of killing a police officer during a traffic stop over the weekend.
“We had use literally every resource the we had available to us and there was intensive pressure on him it was just a matter of time before he turned himself in”, said Toney Armstrong, Memphis Police Director.
“(It had) nothing to do with back up, had nothing to do with man power or shortages”, Armstrong said. He handed himself in after arriving at the federal building on Monday night with his family.
Armstrong had used that word to describe Wilbourn during the manhunt following the shooting. “He said I want you to know that one, I’m not a cold-blooded killer and two, I am not a coward”.
Bolton had been with the Memphis Police Department (MPD) since October 2010.
A first-degree murder warrant had been issued for Wilbourn who was suspected of being the passenger in the auto.
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Officer Bolton spotted a 2002 Mercedes Benz parked illegally and shone his squad car’s spotlight on the vehicle on Saturday night. Wilbourn was on probation for an armed bank robbery.
