{"id":31265,"date":"2025-11-03T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31265"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:22:24","slug":"31265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31265","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2207\" data-end=\"2230\">Luke\u2019s knees buckled.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2232\" data-end=\"2327\">Backup arrived minutes later. The man was cuffed, Rex rushed to the vet, but it was too late.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"2329\" data-end=\"2390\">By dawn, the department draped Rex\u2019s photo in black ribbon.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2392\" data-end=\"2488\">The story spread across town \u2014 the K9 who gave his life to stop a bullet meant for a criminal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2490\" data-end=\"2598\">At the funeral, hundreds gathered \u2014 officers, families, children holding signs that read\u00a0<em data-start=\"2579\" data-end=\"2596\">\u201cGood Boy Rex.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2600\" data-end=\"2694\">Luke stood silently by the coffin, his uniform soaked in rain, his hand resting on the flag.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2696\" data-end=\"2727\">That\u2019s when the crowd parted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2729\" data-end=\"2884\">A man in orange prison garb stepped forward, escorted by two officers. It was the suspect \u2014\u00a0<strong data-start=\"2821\" data-end=\"2835\">Ethan Cole<\/strong>, 28, white male, gaunt, eyes sunken but alive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2886\" data-end=\"2945\">Everyone tensed. Luke\u2019s hand twitched toward his holster.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2886\" data-end=\"2945\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31266\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2886\" data-end=\"2945\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke\u2019s knees buckled. Backup arrived minutes later. The man was cuffed, Rex rushed to the vet, but it was too late. By dawn, the department draped Rex\u2019s photo in black ribbon. The story spread across town \u2014 the K9 who gave his life to stop a bullet meant for a criminal. At the funeral, hundreds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=31265\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31276,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265\/revisions\/31276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}