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Arraignment set for suspect in Memphis police officer shooting

Tremaine Wilbourn, the suspect, in the shooting death of Memphis police officer Sean Bolton, is shown in this Memphis Police Department photo released on August 3, 2015. (Reuters/Memphis Police Department/Handout)
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By Tim Ghianni Reuters
August 4, 2015 - 9:32 am
 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A man accused of fatally shooting a Memphis police officer is due to be arraigned on a first-degree murder charge on Wednesday, two days after he turned himself in and was jailed on a bond of almost $10 million.

Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, surrendered to federal marshals on Monday after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation placed him on its top-10 fugitives list and started a manhunt. The arraignment before the Shelby County General Sessions Criminal Court Division will be through a video link.

Wilbourn is accused of fatally shooting police officer Sean Bolton, 33, multiple times during a scuffle Saturday. Bolton had pulled up to a parked car and apparently interrupted a drug deal, Memphis police said.

Police said Wilbourn was a passenger in the car. The driver had previously surrendered to police and was released without charge.

Wilbourn was on parole after serving a 10-year sentence for bank robbery.

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

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