SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – With a handcuff still dangling from his wrist, a Central California murder suspect was recaptured Thursday, nearly a week after he squirmed out of one cuff at Fresno police headquarters, whacked detectives with the restraint, and then climbed out a window to freedom, police said.
Last Friday evening, Ibn Lugman Haqq, 21, had one hand cuffed to a chair in a police interview room and was undergoing questioning about the murder of a 41-year-old man who was shot 10 times earlier this month at a Fresno apartment.
When the two detectives left the room briefly, he made a break for it.
“He slipped (the handcuff) off of the arm chair handle that he was cuffed to,” said Fresno police spokesman Lt. Mark Hudson.
But the detectives spotted him and the three fought with Haqq using the restraint as a weapon in the fight.