Republican Tim Sheehy now says he lied about accidentally shooting himself at Glacier National Park.
By Liz Goodwin, The Washington PostRepublican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont.
Sheehy, who has told voters he has a bullet in his arm from his time serving in Afghanistan, told The Post he made up the 2015 accidental gunshot story on that October day to cover up a wound he says he received in a 2012 firefight in Afghanistan. In The Post story published this month, however, Sheehy says that his gunshot wound that day was old, not fresh, and that he sought medical attention because he fell during a hike and feared he had dislodged a bullet in his arm from Afghanistan that he had never reported to his superiors, for fear of sparking an investigation into its origins. Sheehy said he believed the bullet may have been the result of a friendly fire ricochet during a nighttime firefight in April or May of 2012.
when park dispatch informed him that the person who fired the gun was at the Kalispell emergency room with a gunshot wound, the report said. The ranger drove there instead. The campaign said this month that Sheehy was attempting to obtain medical records from his ER visit that day. Asked last week about whether he had received his medical records, the campaign declined to comment and directed The Post to Sheehy’s lawyer.
Sheehy has offered varying accounts of how many times he was shot while serving and under what circumstances. In his 2023 memoir, “Mudslingers,” Sheehy wrote in one passage that he received multiple bullet wounds in Afghanistan. In another, he wrote that his body was hit by a bullet just once. In the book, he also offers varying accounts of how he was shot.
Watkins, Sheehy’s lawyer, previously argued Sheehy could not have accidentally discharged the Colt .45 by dropping the gun in 2015 because “doing so is not possible based on the design of the weapon’s firing mechanism.”
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