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An Ohio police dog who was shot several times during a weekend burglary died Sunday morning.
The dog, Jethro, was shot around 1 a.m. Saturday as he approached a suspect attempting to rob Fisher Foods in Canton, WKYC reported.
“There’s not a doubt in my mind that that dog saved officers’ lives today,” Police Chief Bruce Lawver told the Canton Repository.
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Jethro sits with his parter, Officer Ryan Davis. (Police K-9 Association)
After Jethro was shot, a gunfight ensued during which the suspect, later identified by police as 22-year-old Kelontre Barefield, was wounded. Barefield was later found hiding near the store with a non-life-threatening bullet wound to the leg, police said. No cops were injured in the exchange.
Jethro wasn’t as lucky.
Hit three times, veterinarians treated him for internal bleeding, according to WKYC. Swelling of Jethro’s brain was a more immediate concern, however. The dog took a round to the bridge of his nose, the Police K-9 Association wrote in a post on its Facebook page. Though it did not penetrate, it “is the equivalent of getting hit in the forehead with a hammer."
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The dog, Jethro, was shot around 1 a.m. Saturday as he approached a suspect attempting to rob Fisher Foods in Canton, WKYC reported.
“There’s not a doubt in my mind that that dog saved officers’ lives today,” Police Chief Bruce Lawver told the Canton Repository.
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Expand / ContractJethro sits with his parter, Officer Ryan Davis. (Police K-9 Association)
After Jethro was shot, a gunfight ensued during which the suspect, later identified by police as 22-year-old Kelontre Barefield, was wounded. Barefield was later found hiding near the store with a non-life-threatening bullet wound to the leg, police said. No cops were injured in the exchange.
Jethro wasn’t as lucky.
Hit three times, veterinarians treated him for internal bleeding, according to WKYC. Swelling of Jethro’s brain was a more immediate concern, however. The dog took a round to the bridge of his nose, the Police K-9 Association wrote in a post on its Facebook page. Though it did not penetrate, it “is the equivalent of getting hit in the forehead with a hammer."
More in link below:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/1...-shot-breaking-up-burglary.html?intcmp=hplnws
credit: foxnews.com
