Overview

• Officers responded shortly before 10:45 a.m. to a home in the 7400 block of Gorgeted Quail Grove where a suspect barricaded himself, prompting a tactical entry with a K9 team.
• K9 Roam was stabbed multiple times during the encounter and underwent emergency surgery at a local veterinary facility, where he remains in critical condition.
• Veterinary staff reported extensive lacerations to Roam’s head, neck, abdomen, and left leg, and said he received multiple blood transfusions with the next 24 hours deemed crucial.
• The suspect, identified by KOAA as 37-year-old Anthony Bryant, was taken into custody after officers used a taser and a chemical irritant, and no officers were injured.
• CSPD said the Homicide Unit is leading the investigation into an attempted killing of a police service animal, and Chief Adrian Vasquez scheduled a 5 p.m. briefing to provide updates.