LAWRENCE, Kan. — At 66-years-old, Daniel Brooks was having fun with retirement and moved to Lawrence eight months in the past. Many within the neighborhood knew him as Danny.
Although he by no means married and did not have youngsters, Brooks was dedicated to his canine, Bear.
“Every part at his tempo,” Don Brooks, Danny’s youngest brother, mentioned. “When he bought up, he bought up. When he needed to stand up and he went to mattress, when he needed to go to mattress, and he and his Bear had been inseparable.”
Final Wednesday, the 2 walked to Dillons Meals Retailer, 1015 West twenty third Road, as they usually would most mornings.
“This was simply to go get a newspaper and are available dwelling,” Don Brooks mentioned. “This was nothing extra to him than simply getting out of the home, getting Bear train and coming dwelling.”
However they by no means made it again. Danny Brooks was killed – and Bear injured – during an altercation outside the store.
Don Brooks mentioned police informed him the suspect had an issue together with his brother’s canine being on the retailer — saying that Bear didn’t belong. That trade rapidly escalated to the suspect pulling out a knife stabbing Bear first, then Danny.
“Danny being Danny would do every part in his energy to guard his canine,” Don Brooks mentioned, “and if it was a selection between Danny and his canine, he would have, which he did, given his life for his canine.”
Police arrested Robert Davis, 54, on the scene and booked him on suspicion of second-degree homicide and cruelty to animals.
Bear now retains an eye fixed over the workers on the Lawrence Humane Society whereas he recovers.
“He has had somebody with him 24 hours a day, seven days every week for a very good portion of his life and so having issues for him to observe and folks to interact with him I feel is a part of how we have helped form of bridge a few of that loss,” Shannon Wells, govt director of the Lawrence Humane Society, informed KSHB 41 Information on Wednesday.
The stab wound put the senior canine in shock. As soon as vets stabilized his vitals, they sedated and mended him.
The community raised more than $3,600 for his care, and shortly Bear will probably be prepared to go away the shelter.
“Seeing that spark, you realize, is a delight for us as a result of we all know which means that there’s pleasure for this canine forward in his life,” Wells mentioned.
Danny Brooks’ household, who visited Bear over the weekend, is weighing their choices on whether or not they may give him a everlasting dwelling.
“I hope he is aware of that – in the best way a canine will know – that, that his proprietor cared for him until the very finish,” Don Brooks mentioned. “And if it involves new house owners that they confirmed the identical love and a focus.”
Danny Brooks’ household is planning a celebration of life for him in October, when he would have turned 67. In addition they began a GoFundMe campaign for funeral expenses.
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