New Jersey officer delivers baby deer by emergency C-section



WARREN COUNTY, New Jersey — A New Jersey police officer saved a fawn by performing an emergency cesarean section on the baby deer's mother after she was hit by a car.

Robert Lagonera, a Washington Township animal control officer, says he got a call early Friday morning that a deer had been struck and killed. The doe was pregnant with twins, and though one of the fawns died in the accident, another was still moving inside of the mother.



It wasn't the only animal emergency the pair responded to that night: about an hour after the C-section, they both got a call that a loose horse needed to be returned home.

"I arrived on that scene it was the same officer again," said Lagonera. "We both got out of our cars and I'm like, 'What's going on tonight man?'"