A hunter was killed after a dog in the back seat of a pickup truck stepped on a gun, causing it to accidentally discharge and shoot the hunter in the back.
The hunter, identified as Austin Smith, 30, of Wichita, died at the scene Saturday morning. Emergency response personnel tried CPR and other life-saving measures on him, according to media reports.
A 32-year-old new dad and Turkish hunter, Ozgur Gevrekoglu, was shot and killed in November 2022 when he was putting his dog into the back seat of his truck, CBS said, citing the newspaper Middle East Eye. The dog’s paw touched the loaded shotgun. A New Mexico man told CBS affiliate KRQE-TV that he was shot by his 120-pound rottweiler mix named Charlie. Like the Kansas incident, the man was sitting in his truck, with his rifle in the backseat. The gun fired when the dog’s paw got caught in the trigger, sending a bullet through the driver’s seat, and breaking a few ribs and shattering his collarbone after hitting him in the back.
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