While gun violence is prolific in the United States, cases of animals shooting humans are rare.
Two years ago, a German shepherd dog shot and killed a 30-year-old man in Kansas after it stepped on a hunting rifle.
In 2018, a 51-year-old man from Iowa was shot in the leg by his pit bull-Labrador mix.
Local news station Fox 13 Memphis cited the Tennessee victim’s girlfriend, who was not named, as saying she was sleeping when the gun went off.
“The dog is a playful dog, and he likes to jump around and stuff like that and it just went off,” she reportedly said.
Her lesson from the incident, “Keep the safety on or use a trigger lock.”
AFP
