A Knox County deputy was bitten by a K-9 during an “On Patrol: Live” episode while searching for a suspect.
KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — A Knox County deputy was bitten by a K-9 Saturday night while filming an episode of “On Patrol: Live.”
Deputy John Longendorf, K-9 Deputy Zachary Doss with K-9 Enoch and another deputy, identified as Harris, walked through the woods and over a creek to some train tracks while looking for a hit and run suspect in the area of West Blount Avenue.
The deputies were walking on the train tracks when a train blew its horn, sending the deputies scrambling to get off the tracks. Viewers couldn’t see or hear much of what happened.
Eventually, Harris is seen with blood running down the right side of his face. Deputy Doss asks Harris, “Where’d he get ya?”
Harris applies pressure to the wound and eventually keeps walking down the tracks in search of the suspect. He tells the other deputies he was trying to get out of the way of the train and fell. Then, the dog bit his face.
Deputies on scene said the wound “wasn’t that deep.”
10News reached out to the sheriff’s office for more on the deputy’s injuries.
K-9 Enoch was Deputy Tucker Blakely’s partner and was placed with him just two days before he was killed in the line of duty responding to a domestic situation in West Knox County in October 2023.