President-elect Donald Trump’s Surgeon General nominee caused a gun accident when she was 13-years-old that left her dad shot dead — a tragedy which inspired her to pursue a career in medicine, but which she only partially revealed to the public, according to a revelatory new report.
Janette Nesheiwat was searching for a pair of scissors that were in a tacklebox on a shelf above the bed where her father slept in their Umatilla, Fla., home in February, 1990, according to a report from the New York Times.
She accidentally knocked it over and a .380 caliber handgun fell out of the container and discharged — striking her sleeping dad in the head.
“I saw blood on my father’s ear,” a young Nesheiwat told police at the time, The Times reports.
Ziad “Ben” Nesheiwat was declared dead the following day at an Orlando hospital in what was ruled an accidental shooting, according to a police report reviewed by the outlet. […]
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