10/30/2026
The North Carolina Police K9 Foundation dropped by East Coast Canine Inc., North Carolina to donate a K-9 trauma kit for K-9 Honcho and Officer Hayes of the Rocky Mount, NC Police Department.
Because of our generous donors we are able to help keep North Carolina K-9's safe while they serve the community.
This K-9 trauma kit was donated in honor of K-9 Diesel of the Chattanooga Police Department, Tennessee.
K9 Diesel succumbed to injuries he received while attempting to apprehend a suspect with felony warrants at the 3300 block of 4th Avenue in Chattanooga.
Officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call, and the armed subject refused to exit the house. When K9 Diesel was deployed to execute a search for the subject, he suffered severe lacerations from broken glass on both hind legs, severing an artery and his Achilles tendon.
Despite immediate life-saving treatment, K9 Diesel's injuries were too severe, and he was humanely euthanized on September 17, 2025.
The suspect was apprehended a few weeks later and was charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment.
K9 Diesel had served with the Chattanooga Police Department for one year and five months.