Funeral this morning for 'a long time explosives detection dog', RIP Rocket:
“The Metropolitan Police Department regrets to announce the passing of K9 Rocket, a long time explosives detection dog assigned to our Special Operations Division. The seven-year old Malinois Shepherd was found deceased by his handler inside of a marked MPD K9 vehicle on late Monday morning. The vehicle was parked, secured and idling in the 2800 block of New York Avenue, Northeast.
All K9 vehicles at MPD are equipped with a temperature monitoring and alarm system that should activate when the interior environment of the vehicle exceeds a safe temperature. A full inspection of the vehicle is being conducted to determine if the system malfunctioned.”“Good morning families! There is aclose to the intersection of 18th and Florida Ave. that is causing traffic to our school. There is police cars in the intersection but school premises are safe and cleared.