CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Actor Angie Harmon has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Instacart and one among its former consumers who fatally shot her canine in March whereas delivering groceries at her North Carolina house.

The lawsuit filed late final week in Mecklenburg County seeks to carry the patron and Instacart chargeable for accusations of trespassing, gross negligence, emotional misery and invasion of privateness, amongst different allegations. It accuses Instacart of partaking in negligent hiring, supervision, retention and misrepresentation. The swimsuit seeks financial damages, to be decided at trial.

Instacart says the patron has since been completely banned from its platform.

Harmon is understood for her work on TV exhibits together with “Legislation & Order” and “Rizolli & Isles.” She informed ABC Information that it was “so unfathomable to assume that there’s someone in your entrance driveway that simply fired a gun.”

“I believe Instacart is past liable for all of this. This didn’t need to occur,” Harmon stated within the interview that aired Wednesday on “Good Morning America.” ABC Information described the canine as a “beagle combine.”

In line with the grievance, Harmon ordered an Instacart groceries supply from a Charlotte retailer on March 30. The Instacart app confirmed a client named Merle with a profile picture of an older lady, with whom Harmon believed she was exchanging textual content messages about her order, the lawsuit says.

Later that day, Harmon was upstairs filling her squirrel feeders when a “tall and intimidating youthful man,” not an older lady, confirmed as much as ship the groceries, the lawsuit says.

Harmon stated she heard a gunshot sound and rushed exterior. She discovered her canine, Oliver, had been shot, and noticed the supply individual placing a gun into the entrance of his pants, in line with the swimsuit. Her teenage daughters, who had already been exterior, had been “in misery,” it says. The canine died on the veterinarian’s workplace.

The patron informed police that he shot the canine after it attacked him, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division informed information shops, including that they didn’t pursue prison prices.

In an Instagram put up final month in regards to the encounter, Harmon wrote that the patron “didn’t have a scratch or chunk on him nor had been his pants torn.”

Instacart says it instantly suspended the patron after receiving the report in regards to the taking pictures, then later eliminated him completely. The corporate says it runs complete background checks on consumers, prohibits them from carrying weapons and has anti-fraud measures that embody periodically requiring them to take a photograph of themselves to make sure the individual procuring matches their picture on file.

“Our hearts proceed to be with Ms. Harmon and her household following this disturbing incident,” Instacart stated in a press release. “Whereas we can’t touch upon pending litigation, now we have no tolerance for violence of any form, and the patron account has been completely deactivated from our platform.”