Fox 13 reported that the man was lying in bed asleep with his girlfriend with a gun in the bed when his pet dog jumped onto the bed. The dog, a one-year-old pit bull named Oreo, allegedly got its paw stuck in the trigger and accidentally set the gun off. The bullet then grazed the man's left thigh.

The man said he was "laying on his bed" with a female friend when his dog accidentally set off the gun's trigger, the Memphis Police Department said.

A man in Tennessee claims his dog accidentally shot him Monday morning while he lied in bed with his girlfriend, media outlets reported.

A man from Memphis, USA was accidentally shot by his own dog while lying in bed with a firearm, local media reported. Jerald Kirkwood told police that his one-year-old pit bull, Oreo, jumped onto the bed and got his paw stuck in the trigger guard of the gun,

A Tennessee man claims he was shot in the leg while in bed with a female friend. On top of that, he says his dog is the one who pulled the trigger on the

A man was shot in the leg while laying in bed with a female friend – and claims his pet dog was the one who pulled the trigger. Jerald Kirkwood, from Memphis, Tennessee, was ‘relaxing/talking’ with an unidentified woman in his bedroom at around 4am on Monday when his dog Oreo decided to jump on the bed.