By Police1 Staff
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – A K-9 and an off-duty police officer were killed in separate DUI crashes Thursday.
According to The Island Packet, Officer Ryan MacCluen, 31, was killed when suspect Whitney Danielle Brooks, 29, turned in front of the officer’s motorcycle.
Around an hour earlier, an officer was injured and his K-9 Mojo killed when suspect Richard Shore, 37, collided with their police vehicle.
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North Charleston PD Chief Reggie Burgess described MacCluen as “a friendly person that always had a smile on his face” who “loved being a police officer.”
Mojo served with the department for five years. His handler, Officer Brandon VanAusdal, is currently being treated at a hospital.
Both Brooks and Shore have been charged with felony DUI.