Montana ranger questions Senate hopeful Sheehy’s bullet wound
Candidate says he was shot in Afghanistan; ranger who responded to gun incident questions that account
[W]hen [a ranger in Glacier National Park, Kim Peach, 67] spotted an advertisement featuring a smiling Tim Sheehy running for Senate, Peach, now retired, immediately recognized the ex-Navy SEAL’s face, he said. It was the same man who had told him years earlier that he had accidentally shot himself in the right arm after his gun dropped to the ground while he said he was loading up gear after a hike.
A Candidate for U.S. Senate Says He Was Shot in War. Was He?
Tim Sheehy, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Montana, says he has a bullet in his arm from Afghanistan. But new questions have been raised about his account.
A former SEAL colleague, Dave Madden, who had what he described as a close relationship with Mr. Sheehy before they deployed to Afghanistan, said that Mr. Sheehy never mentioned a gunshot wound to him, and almost certainly would have done so in a conversation they had during their deployment if he had indeed been wounded.
On the issue of the later injury in Montana, Kim Peach, a park ranger who spoke with Mr. Sheehy that day at the hospital, said Mr. Sheehy personally told him that he had accidentally shot himself in the arm, and handed over a revolver with a spent round.
“I am 100 percent sure he shot himself that day,” Mr. Peach said in an interview.
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