Vern Muhlbauer, James' father, believes it will take a "tremendous amount of work" to get through not just Wednesday's funeral, but the next few days as well.
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department has identified the male pedestrian who was killed in the same crash that took a KCPD police officer and a K-9's lives on Wednesday night.
Authorities say a driver has collided with a Kansas City police cruiser, killing an officer who made an arrest in a notorious quintuple homicide nearly a decade ago, the officer’s police dog and a pedestrian. Kansas City police said the crash happened Wednesday night as Officer James Muhlbauer was on patrol. The driver who struck the cruiser suffered minor injuries and was taken into custody. The pedestrian died at the scene and Muhlbauer died at a hospital. The officer’s police dog, Champ, also was killed. The name of the pedestrian, a man in his 50s, wasn’t immediately released.