A police K9 died in the line of duty on Chipeta Avenue in Grand Junction when a gunman leaned out of a window and opened fire on May 6, 2004. Barking and lunging toward the gunman, K9 "Gero" took one of the 11 rounds fired. His handler returned fire and killed the gunman. "I’m alive today because he is not,” retired Officer Geraldine Earthman recalled last year in an interview with KJCT television.
Officers were attempting to serve a warrant when the gunfire erupted. "To be honest, when I got him, I didn’t like him and he didn’t like me,” Earthman recalled. “I had him about a week, and I got him out to go to the bathroom, and he decided to bite me, and we were rolling around in the parking lot of the police department, deciding who was alpha of the team. I won.”
They became inseparable. “No matter what happened, I could count on him, and I did. I had to, and he was there for me even that day,” Earthman said.
[Photo: Grand Junction Police]
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