A police chief’s K-9 dog killed his young daughter in the back yard of their home while he was away. The German Shepherd named Draco was in a kennel and ‘not actively attacking’ when deputies responded to a call for a child being assaulted by a dog at the home in Burlington, Colorado, according to the Kit Carson County Sheriff’s Office.

Burlington, Colo., Police Chief Nathan Hill was housing the German Shepherd at his residence in Kit Carson after the K-9 program in another county was terminated

A police chief’s 3-year-old daughter has died after she was attacked by a law enforcement K-9 named Draco at the family’s home, authorities in Colorado said. The child was found unresponsive in the yard of the house,