CHRISTIAN COUNTY, Ky. (Kentucky New Era)– A K-9 officer is dead after being hit by a vehicle Sunday.
Dzek was a one-and-a-half-year-old Belgian Malinois.
According to the newspaper, he got out of a fenced area while chasing a cat.
He was later found dead with injuries that appeared to have come from being hit by a vehicle.
Dzek joined the sheriff’s office in November 2017.