K-9 Aren
K-9 Aren
K-9 officer Aren, a 5-year old German Shepherd, was one of the best police officer in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
He was stabbed Sunday as he tried to apprehend a man being chased by transit police in Wilkinsburg.
Officers shot and killed the suspect, 37-year-old Bruce Kelley Jr.
A processional and memorial service on the North Shore, at the foot of the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Songs, poems and memories of a K-9 killed in the line of duty.
The Rev. Joseph McCaffrey, the team’s chaplain, said, “We are in awe” of the relationship between “man and beast, working together in loyalty... and in harmony.”
During the eulogies for Aren, officers noted how the dog had been used in an array of situations, from explosive sweeps to crowd control.
The death of K-9 Aren is also criticized for valuing the life an animal under the agency of the law as higher than that of Bruce Kelley Jr.