Lawrenceville police K9 succumbs to cancer

The Lawrenceville Police Department is mourning the loss of a K9 officer that succumbed to cancer Thursday afternoon.

Eiko, an 8-year-old German shepherd, served the community alongside handler Shawn Humphreys for five years. He was credited with more than 100 criminal apprehensions, officials said, and once assisted in the largest heroin bust in Georgia history.

He had recently been diagnoed with a "very aggresive malignant cancer of the blood vessels," a Lawrenceville police spokesman said.