The four-legged assailant accidentally triggered a weapon in a pickup truck, local media has reported.

Police investigating a gunshot incident in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, discovered that the gunman in question was not, in fact, a man.

The felon was a dog that had accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring a passerby, local news has reported.

Cops Called

Officers were called to a store on Saturday and informed that someone had been shot by a shotgun, local news outlet KNOP reported.

Upon arrival, they found a pickup truck with one of its doors blown out, suggesting that the weapon had been fired from inside the truck.

The dog was wagging her tail

They discovered that the truck’s owner had left his dog in the back seat as he went into the store. The dog had moved from one side of the seat to the other, catching its paw on the trigger of a loaded shotgun.

Woman hospitalized

The blast ripped through the skin of the vehicle, and one pellet struck a woman sitting at a nearby traffic light with her arm hanging out the window of her vehicle.

The woman was taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Who do the cops charge?

It is unclear whether the dog’s owner has been charged with a crime.

However, the Scottsbluff Police Department warned Nebraska residents that it is illegal to travel with a loaded firearm in a vehicle.

Did the earth move?

Last November, a Pennsylvania man was seriously injured when his dog jumped onto his bed and set off a shotgun that lay loaded on the mattress with its safety off.

Six months earlier, a similar incident took place in Memphis, Tennessee, when a pit-bull terrier jumped onto his owner’s bed as he and his girlfriend lay there with a loaded firearm.

Hi Jinks in Bed

The dog’s paw got stuck in the weapon’s trigger guard, police said, causing the gun to fire and a bullet to graze the man’s thigh.

In Kansas in 2023, a dog in the back seat of a pickup truck accidentally triggered a loaded rifle and fatally shot a man in the back.

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