Armed felon charged after allegedly shooting Fort Lauderdale police K-9

A federal grand jury has indicted a Fort Lauderdale man on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon after he allegedly fired at a police K-9 during a pursuit in Fort Lauderdale, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Court records show that on April 18, law enforcement responded to a residential burglary in which a firearm had been stolen. Officers established a perimeter and, with assistance from aviation and K-9 units, located 30-year-old Christian Bouie of Fort Lauderdale hiding in a tree in a nearby yard.

When ordered to come down, Bouie allegedly fled, scaled a fence and ran into an adjacent property…

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