In other sad doggy news, an FBI dog was killed in the raid that took out the gunman who killed four people in upstate New York on Wednesday.
The dog, a 2-year-old Czech German Shepherd named Ape, was with FBI agents as they raided an abandoned bar in Herkheimer, NY, looking for the gunman, who had already killed four people, wounded two others, and shot at police officers. Ape was sent into the space first, but the gunman, Kurt Myers, shot him in the chest through an open doorway. Officers tried to resuscitate the dog, and he was taken to an veterinary office where he died. Myers, 64, was also killed in the raid; FBI agents fatally shot him soon after he opened fire on Ape.
The FBI released a statement on Ape's death: "Ape was doing what he was trained to do and made the ultimate sacrifice for his team," spokesman Special Agent Ann Todd said. "His actions were heroic and prevented his teammates from being seriously wounded or killed." Ape had been working with the FBI for only two weeks before he was killed. This had been his second mission.
