A Texas billionaire has helped increase the reward to $100,000 for the arrest of the men who gunned down an off-duty New Orleans police officer in Houston over the weekend.
Tillman Fertitta—who owns the Houston Rockets and is the chairman of the Houston Police Foundation—added to $60,000 to the reward fund in connection with the slaying of Officer Everett Briscoe, KSAT-TV reports. Briscoe was fatally shot at a restaurant Saturday when two armed men demanded customers money and valuables.
“I find it so upsetting that a policeman visiting our city for a vacation weekend met such a violent death,” Fertitta said during a Tuesday news conference.
Images from surveillance cameras of the incident were released by police. They show the two men suspected in the shooting, as well as the silver-gray Nissan Altima with paper tags that used to flee the scene.
