A Kansas man was killed Saturday when his hunting buddy’s dog stepped on a gun tossed carelessly in the back seat of the friend’s pickup truck, firing a round at the passenger seat, KARE reports. It’s not totally clear who the rifle belonged to, but the KARE article appears to indicate it was the victim who left the safety off, writing “The sheriff’s office said the man was sitting in the front passenger seat of his pickup and he had hunting gear and a rifle in the backseat.”
“A canine belonging to the owner of the pickup stepped on the rifle causing the weapon to discharge. The fired round struck the passenger who died of his injuries on scene,” said the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office’s in a statement on dog-kind’s revenge for Old Yeller.