DULUTH, Minn. – A man who shot and killed a police dog while holed up in a Lincoln Park apartment in a 20-hour standoff with police was himself killed. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension confirmed the death. Details of how the impasse ended were not immediately available, but news reporters heard the final gunfire about 5 p.m. Confirmation that the man was dead was tweeted about 8:30. The standoff began the night before when police responded to a report of a physical domestic assault involving a man wanted on felony counts. Police were able to get a woman out safely. Police sent in the police dog, Luna, but the man shot her. Officers returned fire, backed away and set up a perimeter. Luna, wounded fatally, died at a veterinary clinic. Early in the standoff, the suspect fired also at officers, who fired back. No police were hit, nor was it believed that the suspect eas hit. Police in tactical gear used flash bombs and a megaphone on and off in the standoff.
Drugs her specialty. With her police trainer Aaron Haller. Luna was a 3-year-old female Dutch Shepherd. Her specialties included narcotics detection, searches and tracking.
Lincoln Park
The stand-off was in the 2300 block of West Fourth Street, an older Southwest Side neighborhood called Lincoln Park. The park itself is 37 acres — a historic playground created in 1908. From 1911 to 1949 the park hosted an annual Swedish-American Midsummer Festival where anywhere that 10,000 to 20,000 attended. Today, the park has 1-1/2 miles of paved trails, grills and a pavilion for reserved events.