FRESNO,CA (KMJ) – After almost a week on the run in Fresno, murder suspect Ibn Haqq, considered armed and dangerous, is caught in Sacramento.
Haqq was being interviewed on Friday, July 7th, and detectives had handcuffed him to the chair, but he managed to break free from the chair and jumped through a window, still wearing a handcuff on one wrist.
The 21 year-old fled Fresno, and ended up in Northern California.
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says their Street Violence Bureau Tactical Team, and a member of the Fresno Police Department who is also on the US Marshall Fugitive Task Force was working on the case.
With leads and tips, they made their way to Sacramento at midnight on Wednesday, and were assisted there by the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office.
On Thursday, July 13th, Haqq was caught at 5:15 a.m. at an apartment complex in Sacramento.
He was wearing a hoodie and walking out of the apartment with his wife, 28 year old Elvisha Davis by his side.
They entered a into BMW parked outside, and tried to get away but detectives surrounded the car, blocking it with their own vehicles and took Haqq and his wife away at gunpoint.
Chief Dyer says Haqq was still wearing the handcuff on his wrist.
Ibn Haqq now faces murder and charges of assault on peace officers and escape, Elvisha Davis, his wife, also faces accessory for murder charge.
Motive for the shooting has not yet been disclosed by Fresno Police. The handgun – not yet recovered.
As a result of this case Chief Dyer says they’re making changes at the department.
Chief Dyer said it was a mistake by veteran detectives, who allowed Haqq to be handcuffed to an unsecured chair. Haqq was able to slip off the handcuff over the chair arm, allowing an escape that the Fresno Police Department has not seen for two decades.
“Everything that is being done at these rooms is to prevent an escape from ever happening again.”- Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer.
Chief Dyer says they are updating their interview rooms, by installing eye-bolts in the wall and shackles attached to the bolts so that suspects can be securely handcuffed to the chairs where they are being questioned, and also adding video and audio recorders with access to the cloud in the interview rooms.
Click below to listen to the report by KMJ’s Liz Kern
