NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Newton County Sheriff’s Office said it is mourning the loss of one of their K9 officers.
Sheriff Ezell Brown said in a post to the office’s Facebook page that K9 Tom-Tom was “loved and cherished by all who worked with him and by those he served.”
Tom-Tom, a German Shorthaired Pointer, was assigned to the Newton County Superior Court and was trained to detect explosives.
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The sheriff did not say how Tom-Tom died but said a necropsy is being performed to determine the dog’s cause of death.
“I thank K-9 Tom-Tom for his service to our Newton County community and the State of Georgia. My sincere condolences and prayers go out to Deputy Tremelle Riley and his family, who have lost a member of their family this week. May God bless them.”
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