Accident is a lesson for Las Vegas police officer

He lost his partner.

He endured a year of physical and mental rehab.

JASON BEAN/REVIEW-JOURNAL Las Vegas police officer David Nesheiwat talks about his recovery after last year's patrol car wreck that killed his partner, Milburn "Millie" Beitel.

He faced the chance he could never be a cop again.

And when he walked back into a police substation Nov. 2 to work a patrol shift again, it was like starting all over again.

“It felt like my first day on the street,” Las Vegas police officer David Nesheiwat said .

The 26-year-old is back at work patrolling downtown, continuing the job he said he never considered quitting even after the October 2009 wreck that killed his partner, Milburn “Millie” Beitel.

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