The gun fired after the dog's paw got stuck in the trigger guard, police said. The victim was relaxing on his bed with a female friend when he was shot.

WASHINGTON: A dog jumped on his American owner bed and set off a loaded gun, shooting his owner, the police said on Wednesday. The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his

The incident's eerily similar to a 2018 accidental shooting in southern New Mexico, where a 74-year-old hunter landed in the hospital when his dog's paw got caught in his rifle's trigger. The man was sitting in the truck and the rifle was in the backseat.