CITIZENS COMPASS– A dog which jumped on his owner’s bed has accidentally shot him while asleep.
The unusual incident occurred at Memphis, Mississippi, early Monday morning when the dog jumped on the bed and triggered a loaded gun.at the owner, Tennessee.
accidentally shot its owner man from Memphis, Tennessee, was accidentally shot by his own dog while sleeping, according to the police.
The victim was lying next to his girlfriend when the gun fired. He was lucky to escape with only a graze on his left thigh, which was treated at a hospital.
The dog, a one-year-old pit bull named Oreo, accidentally fired the weapon when its paw got stuck in the trigger guard. “Got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger,” the police report stated.
Authorities did not mention the type of firearm involved. The incident was officially recorded as an “accidental injury.”
Although gun-related incidents are common in the United States, cases where animals shoot humans are extremely rare. In a similar case two years ago, a German shepherd stepped on a hunting rifle and fatally shot a 30-year-old man in Kansas. Another incident in 2018 involved a 51-year-old Iowa man who was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.
Local news station Fox 13 Memphis interviewed the Tennessee victim’s girlfriend, who said she was asleep when the shot was fired. “The dog is a playful dog, and he likes to jump around and stuff like that, and it just went off,” she explained.
She shared an important lesson from the experience: “Keep the safety on or use a trigger lock.”
