An Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper from the Canfield Post says it was a birth story like no other. 

Sunday evening Sergeant Eric Brown was dispatched to Interstate 76 in Jackson Township after a passerby reported finding an injured deer. 

"I didn't know what to expect," said Sgt. Brown. 

But whatever, Brown expected, it wasn't a fawn, just moments old.

Sgt. Brown tells 21 News that when he drove up the woman, Nikki Lemonis, was holding a fawn that had clearly just been born, wrapped in a towel. 

She and Sgt. Brown carried the fawn around a fence and left it where they thought its mother could hear it crying and return.

Lemonis, who is originally from Lowellville, said she thought it was a fox when she first saw the fawn. She then got out of her car, picked up the newborn and brought it back to her car.

"I just ran out there," said Lemonis. "I thought, my God, someone is going to kill him."

Brown says he left the scene and began driving when just a short distance away he found the fawn's mother lying in the median. 

According to Brown, the deer had been pregnant with twins when she was hit by a car. The force of the crash left one fawn, and the mother both dead. 

The lone infant had crawled from the crash, up the hill, and onto the side of the Interstate, where it had been found by Lemonis.

Fearing for the surviving infant's life, Sergeant Brown turned around and went back to get the baby. 

"There's quite a few coyotes in that area, and if it had been there crying like it was I'm fairly certain it would have been a coyote dinner," said Brown. 

Sergeant Brown says he took the liner from his coat, wrapped the baby up, and returned to the Canfield Post. 

From there he called the Mahoning County Game Warden, who started looking for an animal rescue facility that could rehabilitate the fawn and reintegrate it into the wild. 

But by then, the baby had already secured a place in the post- as troopers affectionately named him Trooper. 

Trooper is being turned over to the care of an animal rescue with experience taking care of baby fawns. 

Though the mother and second baby did not survive, Sergeant Brown says it was Lemonis who saved its life. 

"She's the true hero, you know. She took the initiative. She saw it, she stopped. So, hats off to her for doing a great job, getting this thing off the road and to safety," said Sgt. Brown. 

For Sergeant Brown, the miracle birth will likely be one that remains unforgotten.