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.

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.

An American dog owner was accidentally shot by his pet in a freak incident rarely seen involving animals and firearms. Officers responded to a home in Memphis, Tennessee on Whitney Avenue at 3:50 a.m.