Officer shoots police dog
A Baltimore police office shot a police dog that might have mistaken the officer for a suspect. Police said the K-9 unit on Sunday was helping hunt for a motorist that jumped from a car when a German shepherd named Blade began to attack an officer coming from a different direction. The officer did not realize Blade was a police dog and shot the dog in self-defense. Blade was rushed to an animal hospital and was recovering.
Three arrested in shoot-out
D.C. police arrested three men after a shootout led to a police chase in Northwest Washington early Monday morning. Around 4: 30 a.m., police saw occupants of two cars exchange gunfire in the 5800 block of East Capitol Street. The suspects began shooting at the officers and drove off, police said. Officers chased one of the vehicles from D.C. into Virginia, then back into the District, until the chase ended at the Malcolm X Avenue SE exit off Interstate 295. Police arrested three adult males. There were no injuries.
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Police investigate two dead in home
Fairfax County police are investigating the death of two people inside a home in the Springfield area. Police responded to the report of a shot person and found the bodies of a 66-year-old man and 52-year-old woman with apparent gunshot wounds to the upper body. The incident appears to be domestic in nature, police said.
Compiled by Scott McCabe
