Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad robo K9 officer Roscoe is dead after being shot by a madman during an armed standoff on Cape Cod earlier this month, Boston 25 reports.
Deranged 30 year-old suspect Justin Moreira was holding his mother hostage in their home in Hyannis on the morning of March 6th when Roscoe and his partner Spot, two Boston Dynamics “Spot” model robo K9s, entered the home to confront the madman. Both came under fire but Roscoe tragically took three bullets from a rifle after getting the drop on Moreira in a hallway. SWAT officers then fired tear gas into the house and the scumbag quickly came out to surrender.
Roscoe is at least the second US police robot to be killed in the line of duty this month. An unidentified robo-officer who served with the Marion County, Florida Sheriff’s Department’s SWAT team was shot dead during a similar armed standoff with a deranged suspect in The Villages on March 15th. James Savage, 54, aka Mario Gambino, has pleaded not guilty to charges of Violation of Domestic Violence Injunction, Possession of Firearm and/or Ammunition by Convicted Felon, Throw Deadly Missile at Within or In Building, Resisting an Officer with Violence, Aggravated Assault on Law Enforcement Officer (two counts), Criminal Mischief (over $1,000 damage), Criminal Mischief ($200 to $1,000 damage). The last charge was probably the one for the robo-murder.