GREENVILLE, S.C. --
The sheriff of Greenville County will present a medal of valor Tuesday to a police dog who nearly lost his life in the line of duty.
Sheriff Steve Loftis will award the medal to Kroc, the police dog, at 2 p.m. at the Law Enforcement Center.
Kroc was stabbed in the chest last month while helping to take down a man accused of a violent purse snatching.
Deputies shot 34-year-old Jerry Dean Davis after he stabbed the police dog. An internal review board found that the three deputies who fired 15 rounds at Davis, hitting him six times in the lower abdomen and leg, were justified in doing so.
Veterinary surgeon Dr. Dermot Jevens operated on the 3-year-old German shepherd for more than two hours to save his life. Jevens said that the knife went through Croc's chest wall, cutting a rib in two, slitting one of his lungs. The knife also cut into Kroc's diaphragm, liver and gallbladder.
Davis was released from the hospital. Among other offenses, he is charged with unlawful injury to a police dog, which carried a penalty of up to three years in prison.
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