Collin Rose

Collin James Rose (April 1, 1987 – November 23, 2016) was a police officer who specialized in working with police dogs, posthumously promoted to Sergeant, with the Wayne State University Police Department at Wayne State University.

He had been with the department for five years, and wore badge number 128.

For three years he had been working with Clyde, the only narcotics-sniffing Rottweiler in the Great Lakes region.

Rose was born on April 1, 1987, and grew up in the Kalamazoo, Michigan area.

He graduated from Gull Lake High School in 2006, where he was captain of the football team and had a summer job at a ferry service taking passengers across the Straits of Mackinac to Mackinac Island.

He also interned for the Richland Police Department in Richland, Michigan.

Rose then attended and graduated from Ferris State University's criminal justice program in 2010, where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

He was a Cadet with the New Baltimore Police Department in New Baltimore, Michigan in 2010.

He then worked part-time for the Richland Police Department before joining the Wayne State University Police Department a few months later in March 2011.

Rose was a supporter of efforts related to fallen police officers.

He regularly attended funerals and memorials around the state.

He had recently begun working with an additional dog, Wolverine, a German Shorthaired Pointer named in honor of Detroit Police Department Officer Patrick "Wolverine" Hill, who died in the line of duty in 2013.

In 2013 he traveled to Boston for the funeral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier.

In 2014 he traveled to Scranton, Penn. for the funeral of Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Bryon Dickson.

Rose rode in the Police Unity Tour beginning in 2015.

He had just started fundraising with his teammate in early November.

On November 22, 2016, Collin Rose, a police officer with the Wayne State University Police Department who worked with police dogs, was shot to death in Detroit, Michigan.

The shooting occurred following an attempt by the officer to stop and question a bicyclist riding near the Wayne State University campus in an area which was experiencing an increase in thefts.

The bicyclist was arrested and charged, but later released due to lack of evidence.

Rose, who was shot in the head, died the following day at 5:45 p.m. at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

He was surrounded by his family and close friends while his co-workers and fellow law enforcement waited in the hospital lobby.

Rose was the first Wayne State University Police Department officer to die in the line of duty.

He was also the fifth police officer shot in the United States within three days.

At 6:31 p.m. ET on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, Rose radioed into dispatch requesting backup and saying he was approaching a bicyclist at 3650 Lincoln Street.

Arriving back-up officers found Rose on the ground and with a gunshot wound to the head.

The officers loaded Rose into the back of a patrol car and rushed him to Detroit Receiving Hospital, where he was taken into surgery.

Shortly after, the bicyclist was named a person of interest in the shooting.

He was taken into custody at approximately 9:45 p.m., following a search involving multiple police agencies and helicopters.

Following surgery, Rose was on a ventilator and listed as being in a critical, but stable, condition.

However, he died from his injuries the following day, November 23, at approximately 5:35 p.m. at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

At the time of his death, he was surrounded by family and friends.

More than 150 other police officers stood vigil in the lobby.

He proposed to his fiancée at the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial following the 2016 ride.

He was also a member of the Metro Detroit Schutzhund Club, which trains dogs using the Schutzhund method.

He was a resident of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, and attended the city's St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church.

He was slated to ride again in May 2017.

Rose was engaged to be married in October 2017.

At the time of his death, his fiancée worked with Detroit Dog Rescue, a local animal rescue group.

Rose was pursuing a master's degree in dispute resolution and was one class away from completion.

He had volunteered at the Wayne Mediation Center in Dearborn.