A man in Tennessee, United States, was accidentally shot by his dog after the pet stuck in the trigger of a gun, in what the police have described as an unusual but accidental incident.
Jerald Kirkwood, a Memphis resident, told the police that he and a woman were lying in bed with a gun when his dog jumped and made the weapon download.
According to the Wreg Local News station, the bullet grazed Kirkwood at the top of its left thigh.
Wreg reported that the Pit Bull of a year, called Oreo, had involuntarily squeezed the trigger after his leg was stuck in the gauge trigger guard. The incident left Kirkwood with a non -critical injury.
According to the reports, the woman present during the incident left the scene with the firearm while Kirkwood was taken to the hospital. Speaking to Memphis Fox 13 news station, the woman described Oreo as an animated dog.
“Oreo is a playful dog, and likes to jump and things like that, and shot,” he said.
When asked if Oreo woke up jumping on the bed or the sound of the shot, she said: “The shot. Yes, a combination of the two. ”
Both women and Kirkwood, whose names were partially held by some media, have said they plan to take greater safety precautions with firearms in their home. “Keep security or use a trigger block,” said the woman.
Police classified the shooting as an accidental injury and confirmed that no measures would be taken against Oreo or its owner.
According to the non -profit organization Brady: United against armed violence, unintentional firearms injuries have been the most common type of injury for weapons that require hospitalization in the United States since 2019. The country's weapons laws remain among the most indulgent in the developed world.
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A 2018 global study on the property of firearms found that civil property weapons in the United States exceed the population, which currently exceeds 340 million.
According to The Guardian Uk, the Kirkwood case is not exempt from precedents. In 2018, Richard Remme of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was shot in the leg after his mixture of Pit Bull-Labrador, Balew, accidentally unloaded a hidden gun at his waist for a playful moment.
A year later, the former football player of the Louisiana State University, Matt Branch, lost his leg after his black Retriever Labrador stepped on a hunting shotgun during a trip on Mississippi. The shotgun shot, striking branch in the leg. Later he spent 12 days unconscious and underwent an amputation, but finally recovered and returned to work.
“I was happy to be alive instead of being angry, I lost my leg,” Branch told Clarion Ledger of Mississippi.
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