Suspect in Memphis officer’s death says he’s no coward

Police said officer Sean Bolton approached the auto, Wilbourn got out, and the two men struggled.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney General’s office says, Tremaine Wilbourn, turned himself in around 5:30 Monday evening.

However, Police Director Toney Armstrong told FOX13 this was a case of a desperate man who would have done anything to avoid going back to prison, including gunning down a police officer.

Mr Armstrong said: “He wanted to make it a point, to say that I want you to know one thing. I asked what was that?”

Armstrong had used that word to describe Tremaine Wilbourn during the intensive two-day manhunt. He handed himself in after arriving at the federal building on Monday night with his family. He died in hospital.

“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”, it added.

Police say 33-year-old Sean Bolton was shot multiple times during a scuffle after he pulled up to a parked auto and apparently interrupted a drug deal.

Bolton, a former Marine, was the third Memphis officer to be killed in the past four years.

Wilbourn is charged with first degree murder.