Spike, two-year veteran K-9 with the Burbank Police Department, was fatally shot by a man who was hiding from police Saturday night. The man fired multiple rounds, with at least one bullet striking the 4-year-old Belgian Malinois.

A coward gunned down a police K-9 during a routine traffic stop in California, before also being shot dead when he opened fire at officers following a hours-long standoff. The unidentified shooter had been the passenger in a car that was stopped late Saturday on the I-5 in Burbank for illegally tinted windows, the LA Times reported.

Spike, a Burbank police K-9, was shot and killed while trying to apprehend an armed suspect, who was fatally shot in an exchange of gunfire during an ensuing standoff.

Just days after celebrating his fourth birthday, Spike the K-9 has lost his life after being shot by a gunman, the Burbank Police Department said Sunday.