He was responsible for helping catch dozens of suspects during his career, which included more than 100 deployments, according to the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office.
Late Wednesday, K-9 Titan killed doing the same thing he was well-trained to do: Stop a suspect.
When driver Jason Andre Wilson refused to pull over, Coweta Deputy Blaize Henderson performed a PIT maneuver — or Precision Immobilization Technique — on the Chrysler 300. After Henderson and Titan exited the patrol car, Wilson opened fire, hitting both Henderson and Titan. Both were struck multiple times, according to the sheriff’s office and GBI investigators.
Henderson, who suffered graze wounds, returned fire. Wilson was killed.
Titan, a Belgian Malinois, also died at the scene.
Suspect, Coweta K-9 killed in pursuit that ended in gunfire; deputy wounded
Titan was the first police K-9 to die in the line of duty this year in Georgia, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, which tracks law enforcement deaths. He became the 19th police dog nationwide killed while on the job, and the seventh shot to death. In 2023, five K-9s in Georgia died while working, the ODMP site states.