‘Barbaric’: K-9 Fatally Stabbed by MS-13 Gang Members During Virginia Prison Attack

A heroic K-9 has been killed by members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang at Sussex I State Prison, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) announced on April 3. The K-9, a Belgian Malinois named Rivan, was stabbed to death by three members of the gang, better known as MS-13, while “heroically protecting its assigned corrections officer, staff, and inmates,” officials said. The incident occurred on April 2 when the gang “viciously attacked” another inmate within one of the facility’s housing units, according to the VADOC. A fourth inmate also appeared to be supervising the brutal assault, officials said. Corrections officer Kharmishia Phillip Fields, who has been with the VADOC for four years, was on duty in the area at the time of the attack along with her assigned K-9 Rivan....