The German shepherd barked at the coffin of its deceased owner. Opening the lid, people screamed in horror…….

The hospital had identified the deceased as Officer Michael Thompson, and though they admitted a mistake, it was unclear how exactly it could have happened.

The police chief, along with the family, including Rex and his new handler, went to the hospital hoping for answers. While the group waited to arrive, the doctor handling the officer’s case went down to the storage area for deceased patients’ personal belongings.

The IDs and belongings of both officers, including the man who remained in a coma, were sealed in bags, neatly labeled with their names. The items had been removed from the men when they were brought in, and given the chaos that night, perhaps the IDs in the wallets hadn’t been properly checked. The doctor wanted to check all possibilities, pulling out the bags and laying the contents on the table…

He realized the hospital had made a terrible mistake. It seemed that in the rush that night, no one had bothered to check the IDs in the men’s wallets. One of the bags, labeled as belonging to the man in a coma, contained the ID of Officer James Carter, whose photo clearly didn’t match the man in the hospital room upstairs.

With a trembling hand, the doctor hurried to open the bag labeled as the deceased’s belongings. He pulled out the wallet and, seeing the ID inside, quickly called the hospital director. The wallet in the deceased’s bag belonged to Officer Michael Thompson…

It was now clear that a very serious error had been made in identifying the bodies.

As soon as the group arrived, they were escorted to the hospital director’s office, and after a lengthy discussion and numerous apologies, the story of this unfortunate misunderstanding emerged. On the night of the warehouse incident, two men were brought to the hospital from the scene.

One was wounded and died during surgery. The second officer had apparently resisted the robbers, but unfortunately, due to his injuries, he was placed in a medically induced coma for recovery, and his face was bandaged, covering deep wounds. Neither at the hospital nor at the scene did anyone think to check the IDs in the wallets found on the men.

Since Michael’s family was in another city at the time, there was no one to identify the deceased’s body, so the hospital assumed the initial identification was correct…