Accused cop killer captured, Orlando police say – NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida
(CNN) — After more than a month on the run, a man accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and an Orlando police officer has been captured, officials said Tuesday night.
Markeith Loyd is suspected of shooting Sade Dixon on December thirteen and police Lt. Debra Clayton outside a Walmart on January 9.
Loyd’s alleged rampage touched off a multiagency manhunt. An investigation led authorities to an abandoned house in Carver Shores, Florida, where Loyd was arrested, Orlando police Chief John Mina said in a news conference.
Dressed in figure armor and carrying two handguns, Loyd attempted to flee out a back door and then the front. Police used force when he resisted arrest, bringing facial injuries to the suspect, Mina said.
In movie, Loyd’s face shows up to be engorged and bruised, and he said: “They strike me up! They hit me up!”
Loyd was placed in Clayton’s handcuffs during his arrest, Mina said.
“To put her handcuffs on the bad boy that she was attempting to catch when she was killed . it’s meaningful,” Mina said. “It’s something that we wished to do for the family and for the law enforcement community.”
Officers applauded as the top brass gathered in a hallway of police headquarters before the news conference.
The arrest was bittersweet, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said, coming the day after Clayton’s funeral.
Someone at the store had contacted Clayton and told her Loyd was in the area, police said at the time. Loyd allegedly shot Clayton when she attempted to treatment him.
Loyd was to be charged with two counts of murder later Tuesday in the deaths of Dixon and Clayton, Demings said.
He also faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated brunt for injuries Dixon’s family sustained in the alleged encounter.
Three people have been arrested for allegedly helping Loyd evade capture, and more arrests are expected, Mina said.
Police arrested Lakensha Smith Loyd, one of Loyd’s nieces, on January 11. Orange County deputies said in an arrest affidavit that she contacted people on behalf of her uncle after Dixon’s death. She indicated she was in contact with him after the shooting, the affidavit said.
She allegedly went to a restaurant where her uncle worked to pick up $200 as Loyd attempted to avoid arrest.
A day earlier, police arrested Zarghee Mayan, who deputies said failed to contacted authorities after Loyd told him he killed Dixon.
Jameis Slaughter, Loyd’s ex-girlfriend, is accused of being an accessory after the fact. Authorities said she collected money for Loyd and lied to police about her communication with the suspect.
Slaughter said Loyd told her police would have to kill him because he wasn’t going back to prison, according to an affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities said the car of Jamesia Slaughter, Jameis’s twin sister, was seen near the Walmart ninety minutes after Clayton was killed.
Clayton was a master sergeant in the police department at the time of her killing; she was posthumously promoted to lieutenant.
The-CNN-Wire: By Emanuella Grinberg (CNN’s John Couwels and Susannah Cullinane contributed to this report.)
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