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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – A memorial service will take place Wednesday for a South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) K-9 who died last week in the line of duty. SLED will honor the life and service of K-9 Rico during a ceremony held at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in Columbia, according to the […]
A man who shot two people, including a sheriff's deputy, along the South Carolina coast was killed by officers after he fatally wounded a police dog, authorities said. The dog, named Rico, was sent into a home on Johns Island, west of Charleston, Thursday afternoon to search for Ernest Robert Burbage III in places a robot couldn't reach, State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel said. After killing the dog, he came out of the home and pointed the same high-powered rifle at officers, who shot and killed him, authorities said, ending the daylong ordeal.