NYPD Emergency Service Unit Officer Katrina Narvaez with her partner Freddie. The K-9 was named for her father, a fallen NYPD lieutenant.NYPD
The K-9 partner of NYPD Emergency Service Unit Officer Katrina Narvaez has been named “Freddy” in honor of her father, slain NYPD lieutenant Frederico Narvaez.
Katrina’s father was shot and killed in 1996 when she was just 9 years old.
Lt. Narvaez responded to help a woman who said she was being stalked. When Narvaez arrived after calling for backup, career criminal Harvey Richardson, 61, turned and fired, striking him in the face as he exited his patrol car before he could get off a shot. Responding officers killed Richardson, the New York Post reports.
K-9 Freddy specializes sniffing out guns, explosives, and other compounds, ABC7 reports.