Mr McCarney allegedly told police he found the child gasping, and that when she stopped, he thought something must be caught in her throat, so he put his fingers into her mouth in an effort to clear any blockage.

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"This was not something we thought was going to happen to her at all, " said Nikki Johnson, one of Shoshana's younger sisters and an Army captain stationed in Virginia.

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Of course what I told her is something I would never say in public as I thought it was private.

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She said her father's friends thought he might have reached forward to pick something up from the floor and encountered turbulence which flipped his aircraft over.

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And she thought her dad was, like, a genius and like a Picasso or something, that how - what fantastic works of art these were, these things that talked to you while you were looking at them.

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Weeks later, with bills piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.

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"Nicole was the type of person if she thought that something was wrong somewhere, that she could help repair it, " said her aunt.

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