OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Misdemeanor charges against the son of Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy have been dismissed.
Authorities say Joel Sheehy accidentally shot himself in the face with a 9 mm pistol early on the morning of Feb. 2.
The now-22-year-old Sheehy was charged later with possession of an unregistered firearm and failure to appear in court.
Joel Sheehy’s attorney, Michael Kelley, says there was some sort of misunderstanding about the court hearing, but he wasn’t Sheehy’s attorney at the time.
City Attorney Marty Conboy says he asked a judge in August to dismiss the firearms charge and the other allegation because Joel Sheehy was intending to register the pistol. Conboy says other guns at Sheehy’s west Omaha apartment had been registered.