
According to police, a dog owner was shot by his pet when it leaped on his bed and activated a loaded firearm.
When he was shot early morning of March 11, the man from Memphis,Tennessee,United States was sleeping next to his female companion. He managed to escape with a minor wound to his left thigh that required medical attention.
According to a police incident report, the dog, Oreo, a year-old pit bull, “got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger.”
According to the unidentified girlfriend of the Tennessee victim, who was quoted by local TV station Fox 13 Memphis, she was asleep when the gun went off.