The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office has named its new K-9 in memory of detention center employee killed in an accident last year.
The sheriff’s office had asked for the public’s help in naming the new bloodhound.
The sheriff’s office settled on the name “Russo.”
James Bryon Russo, 31, was airlifted from the scene of the single-vehicle accident which occurred in May 2016 in Hernando County. He had been driving a 2007 four-door Toyota eastbound on State Road 50 when his vehicle entered the center median, he overcorrected and the vehicle overturned, according to an accident report from the Florida Highway Patrol. He was thrown from the vehicle in the crash, the report indicated.
Russo began his employment with the Sumter County Detention Center as a detention support specialist in December 2013 and was later promoted to a detention deputy.
