Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Dear handler and fellow officers,

Please accept my most sincere condolences for your loss of K-9 Mako. Regardless of the job we ask our partners to do, they do it willingly to serve us as faithful companions. Please keep the faith and know that healing will come in time. You all will be in the thoughts and prayers of the Wise County Sheriff's Office K-9 Unit.

Sgt. Jay-T Manoushagian (K-9 Unit)
Wise County S.O. TX - Handler of K-9 Pepper (EOW: 1/28/15)

February 27, 2015

Thank you for your service, Mako. May you rest easy

Deputy W.A. Stroupe
Cleveland County Sheriff's Office

February 27, 2015

The law enforcement community is deeply saddened by the untimely passing of K9 Mako. Our deepest sympathies and prayers go to the department of K9 Mako. We thank him for his service.

Zone Five Academy Session 58
New York State Zone Five Regional Law Enforcement Training Academy

February 26, 2015

I'm so sorry to hear of your brave sacrifice. Thank you for your service K9 Mako. Run free over the bridge, your partner will handle it from here. You have earned it. I know you will be missed by your partner and all of the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office.

Shannon Jenkins

February 25, 2015

Thank you for your service Mako. I'm sorry you were taken from us. My heart goes out to your handler and all who knew you. I can't wait until we get to see you again. Until then, you go and run free and happily through the Heavens knowing you were loved and valued.

Kristi
Surviving Daughter of Special Agent J. Robert Porter
Federal Bureau of Investigation
E.O.W. 8/9/79

February 24, 2015

RIP Mako. Goodspeed.

David Weldon
Oxford PD (formerly)

February 24, 2015

Go lay down Mako, your job is done and your rest is earned!

St Francis accepts you with comforting arms in the kingdom of heaven!

NJD
Penna P/O & State Inv ret, CCPD Comm/RTOC

February 24, 2015

Thank you for your service to Cleveland County. Godspeed, Mako

Deputy W.A. Stroupe
Cleveland County Sheriff's Office

February 24, 2015

Thank you "Officer" Mako for the protection to your handler. May God bless and comfort the family you leave behind.

Deputy
TN

February 23, 2015

IN MEMORY OF K9 MAKO

To the family, friends, and colleagues of K9 Mako:

From the beginning of time after Cain killed his brother, Abel, there has been a need for law enforcement officers to protect the weak and to bring evildoers to justice. This work is necessary in a sinful world and is dangerous. In 2015, three law enforcement canines have sacrificed their lives to protect their handlers and the citizens of this great nation. Today, we honor the sacrifice of K9 Mako, of the Cleveland County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Office, who died on Thursday, February 19, 2015, from injuries sustained in the line-of-duty on November 19, 2014, when he was attacked and mauled by another dog while assisting members of the Cleveland County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Office’s Vice and Narcotics Division serve a warrant at a home in Shelby, North Carolina.

Lord God, we are grateful for the life of K9 Mako. He died serving us. Help us never to forget. Help us celebrate the life of K9 Mako and honor his sacrifice. Be with the family, friends, and colleagues of this fallen hero. Comfort them and give them your strength. Guide those who seek to take care of the family of this hero. May those empowered to do so, care for them with integrity. In commemorating the death of this hero, help those who mourn to remember that death is not the end. Death does not have the final say, but is simply the transition to the glorious life to come. Dogs do go to heaven! They should look forward to that life to come with joy and thanksgiving.

As for the citizens of Cleveland County, North Carolina, help them to faithfully equip their law enforcement officers and canines with the best tools to protect their county. May their training be adequate to the task. Help the citizens of Cleveland County, North Carolina, to remember to fund their law enforcement canine programs adequately and treat their canine heroes with respect. Help the citizens of Cleveland County, North Carolina, to obey the law and treat each other with dignity so as not to add to the burden of crime and pain to their county.

The time for mourning will soon pass. We have now remembered and celebrated the life lost in this great tragedy. As the family, friends, and colleagues of K9 Mako go forward, they must celebrate the good things in their lives; and to celebrate life itself!

Finally, Lord God, we pray for the families, friends, and colleagues of all the law enforcement officers and canines who have been killed in the line-of-duty and we thank you for their sacrifices. Bless the lives of their families, friends, and colleagues so they might find healing. Help their law enforcement organizations support the families of these fallen heroes. Even though their deaths might have been senseless, make something good come out of these situations so that their law enforcement organizations and the communities in which they lived and served might be stronger because of their lives and their deaths. Amen.

Now, K9 Mako, may the Lord bless you, and keep you: the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. Amen.
Now, go and crossover the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ for there is much work to do against Satan and his demons!

In His Service,

Police Chaplain Steven R. Closs
Retired Captain of Police, Nashua NH Police Department
Police Chaplain of the Merrimack, NH Police Department
Pastor of The Peacemakers Prayer Ministry

Police Chaplain Steven R. Closs
Merrimack NH Police Department

February 23, 2015

Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

Joel
Supporter

February 23, 2015

RIP Mako

Marshal Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

February 22, 2015

Godspeed K9 Mako, thank you for your service.

Blue Line K9 Foundation
In Memory of K9 Ronin, EOW 06/20/13, Glendale PD, Arizona

February 21, 2015

Mako your work nor the help you served to your fellow man will ever be forgotten. You're a hero and the fact that you died in the line of duty makes you even more a hero. God speed and may you rest in peace. With due respect.

Alice Bryner
Disabled Veteran

February 21, 2015

Thanks for you service

Communications
OHSU Police Department

February 21, 2015

Sorry for your loss, Mako rest in peace and you want be forgotten. Thank you for your SERVICE.

Joyce Carruth

February 20, 2015

May God carry you over that Rainbow Bridge to run and play through eternity. So God said it to be so I know its true. My respect K-9 Mako.

K-9 Trooper D Osborne
Tennessee Highway Patrol

February 20, 2015

Gods speed Mako. Run free at the bridge. You will never be forgotten.

Civilan

February 20, 2015

Rest in peace Mako!
You will not be forgotten!

Willie Bell Hopewell VA!
Friend Of All Law Enforcement Officers!

February 20, 2015

RIUP 4-legged deputy. My condolences to the SO and the handler.

Chief (RET) JA Millan
Avery Co. NC Public Schools LEO

February 20, 2015

RIP Mako, Thank you for your dedicated service!

Lieutenant John Humphries
Cleveland County Sheriffs Office

February 20, 2015