Date uploaded: 2022-06-11 14:16:17
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. 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.
So far, the State Department has been silent about its role in medically evacuating the American under its purview at the foreign post.
Read our entire investigation at the link in our bio.
