A man in Memphis, Tenn. was laying in his bed when his 1-year-old Pitbull named Oreo shot him in the leg. According toThe Guardian, Jerald Kirkwood told police in Memphis that he and a woman were lying in bed with a firearm when his dog jumped up and inadvertently caused the weapon to discharge.

Betrayed by man's best friend? A Memphis man claims his dog shot him while he slept. We’ve all heard that dogs are man’s best friend, but one Memphis man might be reconsidering that title after an unfortunate (and slightly unbelievable) incident involving his beloved pit bull, Oreo.

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.

The man suffered a non-serious gunshot wound and told officers that his one-year-old pitbull, Oreo, accidentally pulled the trigger

In a rare incident, a man has been shot by his own dog while lying in bed. Police reacted and a friend of the affected man disclosed what happened.

WASHINGTON : An American dog owner was shot by his pet after it jumped on his bed and set off a loaded gun, police said today. The man, from Memphis, Tennessee, was asleep beside his female partner when he was shot early Monday morning, escaping with a graze to his left thigh that was treated in hospital.