Donald Trump has appointed a woman who accidentally shot dead her father to be the US’s new Surgeon General.
Dr Janette Nesheiwat, 48, is expected to be sworn in within weeks of Mr Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration to take the position as the nation’s top doctor.
Glamorous Dr Nesheiwat is famous in the US as a medical expert on Fox News and has often talked about how losing her father at a young age inspired her career in medicine.
But The New York Times last night revealed that when she was 13 she accidentally shot dead her father at the family home in Orlando, Florida.
According to a 1990 police report, she told officers she was trying to find a pair of scissors and reached for a fishing tackle box on a shelf.
She told police: “I was in father’s bedroom at around 7.15am getting some scissors. I opened the fishing tackle box and the whole thing tipped over. Something fell out of it and there was a loud noise. I saw blood on my father’s ear.”
Ben Nesheiwat, 44, was declared dead the next day from a bullet wound to the head from a .38-calibre handgun, which was stored inside the tackle box.
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