FBI Finds ‘No Crime’ in U.S. Priest’s Death
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NAIROBI, Kenya — An American priest and human rights activist whose death stirred an outcry in Kenya last year apparently shot himself in the head, the FBI said Thursday.
“During the course of this investigation, no indications of crime developed,” Thomas Carey, assistant special agent in charge of the investigation into the death of the Rev. John Kaiser of Minnesota, said in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.
Kaiser, 67, was found dead along a busy highway Aug. 24.
Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), who has pushed for a probe into Kaiser’s death, said he was skeptical of the FBI report.
Kaiser’s colleagues believe the priest was killed for criticizing the Kenyan government.
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