The more a suspect resists, the harder a police dog bites.

That painful lesson was learned the hard way by an escapee who was subdued by a Shreveport police K-9 after a high-speed chase across the city last month that ended with a police car rammed and the escapee shot by an officer and bit by a police dog.

Police car video shows suspect Kory Gay, an escapee from a Monroe work release program, tumbling out of his car with K-9 Mico latched onto his right arm. Police, who had sent the dog into Gay's car to subdue him, then rushed Gay to handcuff him. The dog can't hear commands to let go of Gay's arm until someone turns off a police siren.

The chase began in south Shreveport after a patrol officer spotted a car Gay was believed to be driving. Authorities had gotten a tip he was in the area.

The high-speed chase -- with the suspect running red lights and sometimes driving on the wrong side of the street -- wound north on Fairfield Avenue and eventually turned onto Interstate 49. It ended on an Interstate 20 access ramp, where an officer's patrol car was rammed and the 19-year-old Gay was shot in the right arm by Officer Chase Crow.

The dog's handler, Cpl. Chris Yarborough, said extensive training and natural instincts are the reasons police dogs don't let go of struggling suspects.

"They're not supposed to let go until we make them let go," Yarborough said.

The district attorney's office reviewed the shooting and ruled police actions justified. Gay faces criminal charges in connection with the chase.