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Authorities asked the courts on Wednesday to deny bond for the suspect in last week's fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer as he remained hospitalized for injuries he got during his arrest.

An affidavit, filed with the Orange County Clerk of Courts a day after 41-year-old Markeith Loyd was arrested in an abandoned home, shows authorities want to make sure he remains in custody, as is customary for a fugitive facing murder charges.

Loyd was arrested Tuesday night after a manhunt that lasted more than a week. He is accused in the killing of Lt. Debra Clayton outside a Wal-Mart store last week and in the death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon, last month.

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said the arrest is bittersweet, noting that in addition to Clayton, a deputy in his agency, Norman Lewis, died in a traffic crash during the manhunt for Loyd.

"I believe that our entire community is going to breathe a sigh of relief at this point," Demings said. "They will sleep better knowing tonight that... this maniac is off the streets."

Loyd's face was bloodied and swollen when he was taken to police headquarters, and he was hospitalized overnight. He remained in the hospital Wednesday.

"He resisted arrest and there was force used," Orlando Police Chief John Mina said, without elaborating. "We'll investigate that use of force just like we investigate every single use of force."

Loyd's arrest was the result of detective work, not tips from the public, Mina said, despite a $125,000 reward for information leading to Loyd's arrest.

Residents of the neighbourhood in west Orlando where Loyd was captured said it's not surprising that the arrest didn't come from tips, even though it's a good neighbourhood to live in.

"Some people fear repercussions, of whatever, from other people," said Aaron Chance, who lives a half-dozen homes away from the abandoned home where Loyd was captured. "Some people are reluctant for whatever reasons."

SWAT team members surrounded the one-story, cinderblock home on Tuesday night. Loyd initially tried to escape out the back but then ran back inside the house. He was wearing body armour and had two handguns when he ran out again, Mina said.

The arrest affidavit said Loyd faces multiple charges related to the death of his ex-girlfriend's death, Sade Dixon, including first-degree murder, killing of an unborn child by injury to mother, attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Dixon's brother also was shot, but not fatally.

The affidavit said that Dixon had been living with Loyd until three days before she was fatally shot outside her parents' home. Dixon left Loyd and moved in with her parents after the couple had a fight in which he bit her in the shoulder and she required a tetanus shot, according to the affidavit.