A Russian man was sentenced to one year and three months probation because his dog shot and killed a person, the Interfax news agency reported.
Igor Solomin, 44, was adjudged responsible for the October 2010 death of a friend, who was sitting in the driver's seat of an SUV at the time of the accident.
The animal, which the report described as "excitable," stepped on the trigger of a loaded shotgun belonging to Solomin, which was lying in the vehicle's back seat, according to court testimony.
Solomin told a judge in Russia's Saratov province, some 720 kilometres south of the capital, Moscow, that he considered himself guilty of manslaughter and regretted the incident.
Russian dog shoots man, owner sentenced to probation
A Russian man was sentenced to one year and three months probation because his dog shot and killed a person, the Interfax news agency reported.
Igor Solomin, 44, was adjudged responsible for the October 2010 death of a friend, who was sitting in the driver's seat of an SUV at the time of the accident.
The animal, which the report described as "excitable," stepped on the trigger of a loaded shotgun belonging to Solomin, which was lying in the vehicle's back seat, according to court testimony.
Solomin told a judge in Russia's Saratov province, some 720 kilometres south of the capital, Moscow, that he considered himself guilty of manslaughter and regretted the incident.
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