CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MI -- Enzo A. Evangelista, 29, crashed into multiple police cruisers and took a bullet to the head and shoulder Aug. 31 after leading police on a mostly slow-speed chase.

Frightened, but alert, Evangelista's first thought following the crash was of his dog, a German Shepherd in the backseat, according to a dash-cam video released recently to MLive via the Freedom of Information Act.

"Please, give my dog to my mom, please," Evangelista is heard saying frantically in the video. " ... Promise me, guys."

"I'll promise you, man," replies one of the officers.

The Dash-cam footage reveals what led veteran Fraser Police Officer Richard Cheung to fire at least four shots at Evangelista of Clinton Township.

Evangelista slammed into police vehicles multiple times and didn't appear ready to submit to arrest at the time he was shot, based on the video.

An internal review of the shooting by the Fraser Police Department ruled the actions of Cheung and two other officers "were reasonable and conformed with departmental policy."

Clinton Township police also conducted an investigation and determined the shooting was justified, Clinton Township Police Lt. Eric Reincke said.

Evangelista survived gunshot wounds to the shoulder and head; he now faces felony charges.

Officers were on alert about 4 a.m. Aug. 31 after an armed robbery was reported at a 7-Eleven in Clinton Township, which borders Fraser to the north. It was cloudy and lightly raining.

The suspect was believed to be on foot and in the area near 15 Mile and Kelly near the Clinton Township-Fraser border. Officer Eugene Chojnowski parked in the area and spotted Evangelista as he ran a red light in his red 2001 Ford Mustang convertible.

Chojnowski followed the car and soon engaged his siren. the officer wrote in his report. Evangelista "was not stopping" and traveling between 10-15 mph. Evangelista turned into a neighborhood and it appeared he wasn't familiar with it, because he "circled the area several times," Chojnowski said.

The pursuit lasted nearly seven minutes before Evangelista sped up and drove back toward 15 Mile on southbound Kelly. As he attempted a left turn onto rain-slicked 15 Mile he began to fish-tail and spun out.

Now turned around 180 degrees, Evangelista appears to put his car in reverse as the officer rams his front end. As Evangelista reverses, attempting to head the opposite direction, the officer again strikes his front-passenger side with the police vehicle.

Officer Cheung then arrived on scene and maneuvered his SUV to the front of Evangelista, Chojnowski at the rear. Evagelista reverses into the Dodge Charger behind him, and a third vehicle, a Ford Explorer driven by Officer Gary McLaughlin, arrives seconds later and blocks the passenger-side of Evangelista's vehicle.

While you can't see Evangelista's vehicle in the seconds leading up to the shooting in the footage from Cheung's dash-cam, the officer's vehicle is clearly jostled after being struck by Evangelista.

"He just hit me," an officer is heard saying in the video. Seconds later, revving is audible followed by a series of at least four gunshots. "Shots fires, shots fired," Cheung alerts over the radio.

Cheung wrote in his report:

I could "hear the loud squeals of the wheels as (the Mustang) spun on the concrete, a large bloom of smoke and the smell of burnt rubber can be detected in the air. I "can also hear the engine of the suspect vehicle revving loudly. (I can feel my patrol vehicle) tilting to the right as the suspect vehicle continued to smash into my patrol unit. Based on my training and experience, and because of the continued actions of the suspect, and the aggressive movements of the vehicle, I feared for my life and the lives of my fellow officers ... I then removed my duty weapon from my holster and fired 3-4 times at the suspect. The engine then stopped revving and (I) observed the driver slumped in his seat."

After the shooting, the two other officers quickly made their way to the driver's side of Evangelista's car. After a few seconds, one of them opened the door and dragged him out and to the ground away from the vehicle.

Inside was another surprise: Evangelista's pet German Shepherd. The dog is seen in footage walking out the open front door. It's called by Cheung and led away.

Evangelista, though not standing on his own, is conscious.

"Do you have any medical problems," an officer asks twice.

"Yeah ... (I have) paranoid schizophrenia, bipolarism," Evangelista says. He tells the officer he doesn't know why he fled and was headed home when police initiated the stop.

Police apply bandages to Evangelista's head, where he's apparently injured due to one of the gunshots. He wails in pain: "It's hurting more and more ... "

Evangelista spent several days in the hospital and was initially arraigned while still in his hospital bed on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, each a four-year felony; third-degree fleeing and eluding and operating with a suspended license, a misdemeanor.

He's scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary exam Jan. 4 at 8:30 a.m.

Online Michigan Department of Corrections show Evangelista was on probation at the time of the incident for a June 2015 third-offense operating under the influence conviction.

Evangelista pleaded guilty to two counts of resisting or assaulting a police officer in 2011 and has another operating while under the influence conviction from 2010, according to online Michigan Department of Corrections records.