Wounded dog back on patrol with cop who saved him

Nearly three months after San Diego police officer Christopher Wilson died in a shootout, the police dog wounded in the gun battle and his handler have returned to duty as a team.

Officer Mike McLeod recounted that harrowing night in an interview Wednesday, his first since he and his dog, Monty, became trapped in the bedroom of a Skyline apartment where an armed fugitive and his girlfriend were barricaded.

That night is hard to get out of his mind, said McLeod, a 24-year police veteran and a K9 officer since 1991.

“The sounds, the sense of being trapped, my dog bleeding. … I was trying to think: How am I going to get out of here?”

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