Woman shot after dog jumps onto car console
A woman has been shot in the thigh after a dog inside the vehicle with her jumped onto a backseat console, causing a gun underneath to fire.
The Enid News & Eagle reports that Tina Springer, from the US state of Oklahoma, was in the passenger seat of the vehicle that had stopped Thursday to wait for a train in the town of Enid.
The yellow Labrador retriever, which belongs to the 79-year-old driver Brent Parks, was in the backseat and jumped onto the folding console. That’s when the .22-caliber handgun under the console went off.
Police say cloth from the seat covers could have gotten into the trigger well of the gun, making it discharge.
The 44-year-old Springer, who lives in Nash, Oklahoma, and is Parks’ caretaker, was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Police say Parks told them the gun isn’t usually loaded.
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