only after he was able to trigger some kind of button around his neck releasing his canine officer from the back of his patrol car. let s go live to jackson, mississippi. first of all, welcome. thanks for coming on. thanks brooke. let s set up the story. it s pretty incredible. set the scene for me. how did the ambush happen? how many people were involved? then the canine. well deputy frazier was, as you said on a dark road in the mississippi woods. he saw a car that had stopped on the side of the roads and all the lights were off. he just stopped to do a welfare check on the driver. there was one man inside the car. as he approached the car, two other men ran out of the woods. as he started to back pedal, he fell. all three of them jumped on top of him. during this time he was able to trigger the pop mechanism for the back of the car that had the canine officer in it. the canine whose name is lucas, was able to get out and got a
good chunk of at least one of the suspects before they got away. the miracle of that the sheriff told me is they have four canine officer units. only two of them have that pop mechanism. so had he been in one of the otherones he potentially may not have been able to get away with his life. so these guys run off. he ends up it sounds like being okay. but bigger picture here when you heard about this whole story, you were actually tracking a rash of gang violence. specifically this gang order to shoot on site any police officers these people encounter. is that what happened in this case? well at this point, they re not openly saying that they know for sure that s what it is. but since the two hattiesburg officers were killed on may 9th there have been multiple law enforcement bulletins warning