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Dog steps on trigger of rifle, shoots man dead, Kansas sheriff says

January 25, 2023 at 10:09 a.m. EST
A German shepherd dog pictured on a beach at sunset. Not related to the shooting. (SashaFoxWalters/Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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A dog stepped on a loaded rifle, fatally shooting a passenger in his owner’s car during a hunting trip in Geuda Springs, Kan., sheriff’s deputies said.

Joseph Austin Smith, 30, of Wichita was sitting in the front passenger seat of a pickup truck when he was shot in the back, the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.