Floyd was with with a girlfriend, whose name was not released. He was unarmed. And he offered no resistance, Ramsey said.
"He's arrested. It's a done deal. It's over. He's on his way in," Homicide Detective Jack Cummings said late last night.
"We got him," echoed Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross. "Are we 100 percent sure we got him? We got him, and we're happy for that."
For the next hour, Floyd was held in Southwest Philadelphia, waiting for Homicide detectives to bring Liczbinski's handcuffs for him to be restrained for the ride to Police Headquarters. A police tradition is to use a slain policeman's handcuffs on his suspected killer.
Floyd arrived at Police Headquarters at 12:20 a.m. inside a van from the 24th Police District, the dead officer's station. Mayor Nutter and his security detail arrived at the same time.
The van then backed into a loading bay, and Floyd and his girlfriend were whisked into an elevator, away from the view of the public and the many reporters who had gathered there. The entire episode was was a somber, businesslike affair, without any reaction from the officers there.
"The one emotion that everybody shared was relief," Ramsey later said.
Afterward, the mayor told reporters said he got within two feet of Floyd.
"I looked him dead in the eye when he came in, and I told him how disappointed I was in him," Nutter said. There was no response from the suspect, the mayor added.
Liczbinski's family, reached late last night by phone, said they were relieved. They were preparing for tonight's viewing in the Far Northeast and tomorrow's funeral.
Earlier, authorities pursuing a flood of tips, raided apartments in Logan and West Philadelphia and stopped at least one lookalike in their relentless hunt for Floyd.
