GunsDog shoots man: Dog shoots his hunter-owner dead
A Russian hunter was fatally shot by his dog. Police investigators who examined the incident said that the man was shot when his dog stepped on the trigger of a loaded rifle. The man, on a hunting trip on Sunday, was letting his dogs out of the trunk of a car when one of the dogs stepped on the trigger of a loaded hunting rifle, killing the man.
A Russian hunter was fatally shot by his dog. Police investigators who examined the incident said that the man was shot when his dog stepped on the trigger of a loaded rifle.
Newsweek reports that the victim, a 64-year-old man in the Saratov Oblast, was on a hunting trip with his brother on Sunday, 21 January. When they reached to hunting grounds, the man let the dogs out of the trunk of a car. The man already had the hunting rifle in his hands.
“The trigger was presumably activated” when “the dogs jumped on the man” after he opened the trunk, the police said in a statement.
The hunter died on the way to the hospital.
The statement said investigators were still looking into the circumstances of the hunter’s death.
According to regional news site Region64, one of two dogs which were in the car stepped on the trigger of the hunting rifle, which, the police said, had its butt in the ground at the time.
