{"id":309693,"date":"2025-11-23T22:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309693\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:20:22","slug":"burbank-police-dog-dead-after-being-shot-near-5-freeway-suspect-killed-in-shootout-with-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/309693\/","title":{"rendered":"Burbank police dog dead after being shot near 5 Freeway, suspect killed in shootout with police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A police K-9 was shot and killed by a suspect, who was later killed in a shootout with officers, following a traffic stop in Burbank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deadly incident unfolded Saturday after officers conducted a traffic stop on Buena Vista Street near the northbound 5 Freeway on-ramp around 6:40 p.m., according to the Burbank Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police added an armed passenger in that car took off running up the freeway on-ramp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect &#8220;jumped over the freeway embankment wall into a nearby residential neighborhood&#8230; during the search, the canine located the suspect. The suspect fired multiple rounds, striking the canine, before fleeing on foot,&#8221; police added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The K-9 was rushed to an emergency veterinarian for treatment but he did not survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police later <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRZiAUmjtOA\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">identified the dog as &#8220;Spike,&#8221;<\/a> who was described as an &#8220;intelligent and devoted partner.&#8221; He had recently celebrated a birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect hid in the neighborhood for hours after allegedly shooting the dog, triggering a large response from additional K-9 units, crisis negotiators and SWAT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Around midnight, police say the suspect began shooting at officers and hit patrol vehicles that were parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers returned fire, hitting and killing the suspect who has not been identified. A handgun was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A police K-9 was shot and killed by a suspect, who was later killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[160206,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-309693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-160206","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}