‘Playful’ dog accidentally shoots man in the leg

A dog shot its owner in Tennessee after jumping on a gun trigger, causing it to discharge.

Memphis police responded to an emergency call from a man who told them he was lying in bed with a gun when his dog jumped up, causing the weapon to fire.

Jerald Kirkwood was in his bedroom when his one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, leapt onto the bed and got his paw stuck in the trigger guard of his gun.

The gun went off, and a bullet grazed the top of Kirkwood’s left thigh, according to local news station WREG.

Following the incident, a woman who had been in bed with Kirkwood allegedly left the house with the gun, while the injured man was ferried to hospital in a non-critical condition.

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Memphis police said officers were able to locate “one spent shell casing on the front room floor”, according to People magazine.

The woman, who was not named, told Fox 13: “The dog is a playful dog, and he likes to jump around and stuff like that, and it just went off.”

Asked whether she was woken by the gunshot or because Oreo jumped on the bed, she told the outlet it was “a combination of the two”.