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Ohio Statehouse Honors Slain Canton K-9

photo of Jethro and his handler
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The flags are at half-staff at the Statehouse today. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles explains why.

 

Gov. John Kasich has ordered the flags lowered in honor of Canton police K-9 Jethro, who died last weekend of gunshot wounds he suffered during a robbery investigation. Luke Stedke with the Ohio Statehouse says flying the flags half-staff is a good way to call attention to the importance of Jethro and other police K-9’s.

“These are service animals, and they are serving in line as law-enforcement officers.”

This isn’t the first time flags have flown half-staff in honor of police service dogs. Just last fall, the flags were lowered to honor Falko, a police dog from Toledo who was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. 

Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment. Jo started her career in Louisville, Kentucky in the mid 80’s when she helped produce a televised presidential debate for ABC News, worked for a creative services company and served as a general assignment report for a commercial radio station. In 1989, she returned back to her native Ohio to work at the WOSU Stations in Columbus where she began a long resume in public radio.