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\nHandler – Officer Aaron Haller<\/p>\n
Minnesota police K9 shot and killed while on duty<\/p>\n
An officer was hurt and a police K9 is dead following a confrontation with a suspect in Minnesota Sunday night. Duluth Police said K9 Haas was shot and killed after responding to a domestic abuse call. Police said they spent an hour negotiating with a suspect before he started shooting at officers. Haas and another officer were hit. The officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries, but the dog died from its injuries. Police returned fire on the suspect, who was found dead. The suspect\u2019s identity has not yet been released. The injured officer has been released from the hospital. K9 Haas , a Belgian Malinois, was born in the Netherlands in January 2016, and has been working with the Duluth Police Department \u2013 and Officer Aaron Haller \u2013 in the spring of 2017. K-9 Haas was a dual purpose K-9 trained to detect drugs and evidence, and to track and find people. K-9 Haas was twice proven he\u2019s top dog in training. During one of his initial certification classes on narcotics detection, he finished with the top score in the class: 199.67 out of 200. He followed that up at the USPCA regional trials placing first in criminal apprehension out of more than 100 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Died – 1\/13\/19 Handler – Officer Aaron Haller Minnesota police K9 shot and killed while on duty An officer was hurt and a police K9 is dead following a confrontation with a suspect in Minnesota Sunday night. Duluth Police said K9 Haas was shot and killed after responding to a domestic abuse call. Police said …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-k9memorial","tag-mn"],"yoast_head":"\n