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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. A Missouri police K9 was shot and killed while officers were serving an arrest warrant, according to authorities.
K9 Max of the St. Joseph’s Police Department was fatally wounded by the wanted suspect who was fleeing from officers Wednesday night, the department said in a statement, the St. Joseph News-Press reported.
“Last night at approximately 10:30 p.m. members of the special response team along with other officers and our K-9 Max responded to 5108 Barbra St. in reference to serving an arrest warrant on an armed and barricaded subject. During the course of trying to negotiate the subject out of the house, he fled armed,” St. Joseph Police Commander David Hart said.