Murder Suspect Turns Himself In
With his right hand raised in surrender and his left hand clasped in his mother’s, murder suspect Jason Holland, 18, of Thousand Oaks ended three weeks of flight Sunday when he turned himself in to Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies.
Holland and his mother, Sharry Holland, who had pleaded on television for her son to surrender, entered the Lost Hills sheriff’s station at 2:30 a.m.
“He was tired and a little scared and confused, but calm,” Sharry Holland said later. “He knew it was something he had to do.”
Holland was interrogated by homicide detectives and transferred to the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail pending arraignment. He was booked on suspicion of murder in the May 22 knifing death of James Farris III, 16, the son of a Los Angeles police detective, during a fight inside a ramshackle back yard clubhouse.
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