A Brooklyn cop trying to shoot at a dog took out a slightly more substantial target—his boss.

According to reports, the officers were responding to reports of a loud argument at an apartment complex Tuesday when an "aggressive pit bull" entered the fray. Via ABC:

The officers were in the hallway when a pit bull mix was let out of one of the apartments. The dog charged at them, according to police, and the officer fired a shot at the dog.

The shot grazed the dog, possibly ricocheted off a wall, and then struck his sergeant in the right foot just below his big toe.

"The dog didn't bite the cop or anything, I don't know why he bust a shot," the woman who owns the dog told ABC. "My friend's thinking it's the person she just had the altercation with so she just flies the door open, it was the cops you know? Like [friend] look through the peephole! You don't just open the door. The dog ran out and I heard a gunshot."

Both the sergeant and the pit bull are expected to survive, but the shooter's career is reportedly on life support.

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