WON'T BRING THE OFFICER BACK...:

Police shooting suspect caught, arraignment today (Barbara Boyer and Andrew Maykuth, 5/08/08, Philadelphia Inquirer)

Liczbinski was shot while pursuing three men, including Floyd, after a bank was robbed inside a Port Richmond ShopRite. Howard Cain, 34, was killed by police after he allegedly used a high-powered SKS rifle to shoot Liczbinki. Levon T. Warner, 39, was arrested after Saturday's chase.

Floyd, who had been on the run since Saturday, was sleeping upstairs in a front bedroom at 5432 Windsor Ave., a boarded-up middle-of-the-block rowhouse, when police got him, Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said early this morning.

Crime scene tape cordoned off the two-story, middle-of-the-block rowhouse on Windsor Avenue this morning, as investigators stood by a police van parked outside.

Capt. Daniel Castro this morning described the scene last night when Floyd was captured.

Castro said: "We went inside and we found the individual on the second floor in the front bedroom."

Castro said he called for Sgt. Liczbinki's' handcuffs to be placed on Floyd. Floyd was handcuffed by Liczbinski's partner, Sgt. Tim Simpson, who formally made the arrest.

"He was completely emotionless. He was cold-blooded," Castro said of Floyd when he was apprehended.

Thomas Whitney, 58, who lives next door, couldn't describe the scene last night, because he slept through all the noises made by helicopters and police.

He and his mother apparently also missed their chance at the $150,000 reward, he joked. "She said she heard something Sunday night, because the dog kept barking," he said.

Lois Clayton, 50, who lives nearby, was awakened and saw police, but didn't see the arrest. "I was relieved," she said. "It's a good thing."

Police received a tip late yesterday that led to the Floyd's capture. It was one of a string of tips throughout the week that led investigators to believe he remained in the city.

They were close to a capture Tuesday night in West Philadelphia, but Floyd slipped away as he had on at least one other occasion with investigators close behind.

"It was just a matter of closing the circle," Wilkins said. "He kept moving around."

More details of the capture are expected later today. Ramsey was with commanders this morning for his weekly meeting that started at 8 a.m. At police headquarters, detectives were relieved the have the suspect in custody, but expressed the sorrow remains deep as services begin for the officer tonight with his funeral and burial tomorrow.

In capturing Floyd last night, police beat a self-imposed deadline to nab him before services.

The takedown of Floyd came at 11:10 p.m. in Southwest Philadelphia. He was unarmed and offered no resistance, Ramsey said.

For the next hour, Floyd was held in Southwest Philadelphia, waiting for Homicide detectives to bring Liczbinski's handcuffs for him to be restrained for the ride to Police Headquarters. A police tradition is to use a slain policeman's handcuffs on his suspected killer.

...but congratulations to the Brother-in-Law, one of the Philly homicide squad who got to make the arrest.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 8, 2008 12:28 PM