COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – Two teens have been arrested and one is on the run after a Richland County Sheriff’s Department K-9 was killed in an early morning chase, Sheriff Leon Lott announced during a Monday press conference.
“I am also very sad but also very mad,” Lott said. “This is three weeks in a row I stood at this podium and talked about young people and guns and stolen cars. Shooting at deputies and now, this morning, killing one of our police dogs.”
The K-9, named Bumi, was shot at least two times while chasing the teens, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. Bumi was wearing a vest but was hit underneath it the chest, the sheriff said.
“We took Bumi to the vet anyway to see what we could do,” Lott said.
Lott said the incident happened after deputies spotted a car on Parklane Road, which …