A New Jersey police community has been left reeling after a veteran supervisor allegedly abandoned his two K-9 partners in a roasting, unventilated police vehicle for seven agonizing hours.
Sergeant Cody Henderson, who served as the head of the Salem County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit, now faces severe criminal charges of animal cruelty. His canine partners — Rip, a four-year-old Belgian Malinois, and Boomer, a six-year-old English Springer Spaniel — both died of suspected heatstroke.
The tragedy has sparked nationwide fury, with critics and animal rights advocates demanding justice for the highly trained animals who spent their final hours trapped in total darkness…