K9 Hero
Beny
Montville Police Department — Medina, OH
Heatstroke
German Shepherd
Service Record
K9 Profile
Breed
German Shepherd
Cause
Heatstroke
Agency
Department
Montville Police Department
Location
Medina, OH
Incident
K9 Beny died of heat exhaustion while in his handler's vehicle at the police station.
His handler went inside to complete paperwork and return to the vehicle four hours later, where he found Beny unresponsive in his kennel inside the police car.
The temperature at the time had reached only 79 degrees.
K9 Beny had served with the Montville Police Department for 13 months.
What is kept
Photographs, film, sound and papers — what survived a life.