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An American Peace Corps employee in Tanzania in 2019 killed a mother of three and injured two others in a series of crashes after a night of drinking.

 

USA TODAY has been unearthing documents and accounts of the incident involving high-ranking Peace Corps employee John Peterson. Within hours of the incident, the American was rushed onto a plane by the Peace Corps and U.S. Embassy staff and out of the country. Tanzanian and U.S. authorities have been unable to file charges from the incident.

 

Peterson was suspended from his duties and remained on the payroll for more than a year after the incident before he resigned.

 

USA TODAY has interviewed dozens of sources familiar with the Aug. 24, 2019 incident, the fallout and the call for reform. Since USA TODAY published its exclusive report in December, former Peace Corps members have called for change at the agency and raised thousands of dollars for the deceased woman's family.

 

The newspaper has filed more than 20 Freedom of Information Act requests about the incident and continues to probe who made key decisions about Peterson’s treatment.

 

So far, the State Department has been silent about its role in medically evacuating the American under its purview at the foreign post.

 

We invite you to come back to this page again and again and stay connected as we peel back layers of this tragic episode about the Peace Corps’ aspirational mission of promoting “world peace and friendship” and new questions about whether those in charge of fulfilling that promise have done so at the expense of the communities they and the agency’s volunteers are meant to serve.

 

John Peterson left Tanzania for medical care the same day he killed a woman with his car. Since then, officials from the U.S. Department of State have declined to release any information about the fatal incident involving the high-ranking Peace Corps employee. Yet USA TODAY found agency staff have been closely involved, including helping arrange for Peterson’s departure from the country and investigating the incident alongside the Peace Corps Office of Inspector General.

 

In 2019, John Peterson struck and killed a Tanzanian woman with his car while a sex worker was in the passenger seat. He wasn't charged.But USA TODAY confirmed that the former Peace Corps employee, who avoided prosecution after killing a mother of three in a car crash, is the subject of a federal watchdog’s inquiry into whether he had a history of hiring sex workers overseas.

 

https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/peace-corps-apcd-killed-a-woman-in-africa-the-u-s-helped-him-escape-prosecution/

 

The watchdog’s summary, along with USA TODAY’s reporting, shows the events began after Peterson drank an “undetermined amount of alcohol” at a bar, picked up a sex worker and drove her in his diplomatic-plated Toyota RAV4 to his government-leased home. The neighborhood, known as the Msasani Peninsula, is frequented by expats and wealthy Tanzanians. The area has embassies and popular bars but also pockets of shanty housing.

 

Peterson paid the woman for sex, according to the inspector general. Around 5 a.m., he drove her back to the area where he had picked her up and, though it was a clear and dry morning, struck a bystander on the way. The woman’s injuries were severe but not life-threatening. A group of angry onlookers gathered, and when Peterson took off — with the sex worker still in the passenger seat — motorcycle drivers chased close behind.

 

He plowed through a sharp turn and hit Issa as she was setting up her food stand. Peterson kept driving. A short distance later, the sex worker leapt from the moving vehicle and was injured. Eventually, Peterson slammed into a pole and was detained by police.

 

By the time police made it to Issa, she was dead. Bystanders watched as her body was covered with a cloth.

 

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Anonymous ID: 48ee7a June 9, 2022, 9:31 a.m. No.16419765   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9954 >>0006 >>0075

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LANSING — The FBI raided the home of Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on Thursday and arrested him in connection with the investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to federal charging documents.

 

Five months after Jan. 6 attack, the state Democratic Party of Michigan shared a video appearing to show Kelley, a Republican, standing outside the Capitol building during the riots after President Donald Trump's call to action. In the video, Kelley appears to yell: "Come on, let's go! This is it! This is — this is war."

 

Special Agent Mara Schneider, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Detroit, confirmed that federal agents used a search warrant.

 

Kelley, who sells real estate, was at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. when protestors rioted and illegally entered the building on Jan. 6, 2021, though he never confirmed he went inside and has denied doing anything illegal.

 

A Kelley campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. A call to Kelley's house seeking comment was not answered.

 

The charges, contained in a charging document filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. do not accuse Kelley of being involving in plotting any attack that day. Instead, they charged him with allegedly knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building illegally; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and knowingly engaging in acts of physical violence against persons or property. .

 

He was also charged with willfully injuring or commiting "any depredation" against property of the United States.

 

Kelley’s only experience in government came in Allendale, Michigan, where he was an appointed member of the township’s planning commission, starting in Dec.2019. He is no longer a planning commission member, according to the township's website.

 

His involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots had prompted some Allendale residents to call for his removal during township board meetings in Jan. 2021. Kelley had also clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters in Allendale in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020.

 

Kelley also angered residents for his defense of a controversial statue in the township’s Garden of Honor depicting a Confederate soldier as part of its Civil War memorial. Kelley organized multiple rallies around the statue, at one point garnering criticism for inviting William Null, one of the suspects facing felony charges in Antrim County's 86th District Court for his role in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in Oct. 2020.