Specially trained crisis response dogs and their handlers were sent by a Camden County police department to Minneapolis to comfort community members in the wake of a deadly attack on a Catholic school there last week.

The Gloucester Township Police Department’s K-9 community resource unit was sent north alongside members of the nonprofit Crisis Response Canines, the department said in a social media post on Friday.

The department shared photos of Axel, a Rottweiler K-9, and his handler, John Hunt, a retired New Jersey State Police major, visiting with Annunciation Catholic Church’s parishioners.

The response was coordinated by David Harkins, Gloucester Township’s police chief, and Joseph Williams, the bishop of Camden.

Williams is originally from the Archdiocese Of Minneapolis-St. Paul

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