Posted on 05/24/2017 3:51:24 PM PDT by blueplum
Full title: 'You are once again united and keeping the peace': Police dog which broke hearts when it placed its paw on its partner's coffin dies four years after the officer was shot dead
Figo the German shepherd was a K-9 officer with Bardstown police
He was seen resting his paw on the casket of fallen officer Jason Ellis at the May 2013 funeral service in Bardstown, Kentucky
Ellis, a drug enforcement officer, was killed by multiple shotgun blasts in what police say was a planned ambush on the 33-year-old father-of-two
His killer has never been found
A retired police dog in Kentucky has died just two days before the four-year anniversary of his partner's death in the line of duty. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Figo the dog died on Tuesday after battling illness for several months. The drug-sniffing German shepherd was a K-9 officer with Bardstown police and the partner of 33-year-old Officer Jason Ellis, who was shot multiple times while driving home May 25, 2013.
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No real rest for the living until the killer is found.
If I had been there I would have totally lost it-——what a great dog.
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