Police said Wednesday that an American dog owner was shot dead by his pet after jumping on his bed and taking off a packed gun.
A man from Memphis, Tennessee, was sleeping with his wife when he was shot early on Monday morning, he escaped from his left thigh and treated him at the hospital.
A police report said that the dog-one-year-old pit is named Oivo-“a police incident reported that” his Panj was trapped in the trigger guard and targeted the trigger. “He did not explain the type of weapons and recorded the incident as a” accidental injury “.
Although gun violence is very high in the United States, animals that shoot humans are rare.
Two years ago, a German shepherd shot and killed a 30 -year -old man in Kansas after stepping on a victim’s rifle. In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in his leg by the Bell-Librador Mix of his pit.
Local news station Fox 13 Memphs Tennessee cited the victim’s girlfriend, whose name was not taken, saying that when she was running a gun, she was sleeping.
He allegedly said, “The dog is a living heart, and he likes to jump around and like such things, and it is just over.”
Lesson from this incident: “Continue safety or use a trigger lock.”
