Investigators said Taylor admitted he was distracted by his cellphone while he was driving the forklift and never saw Leli walking in the area. — AFP
A North Carolina man who worked as a military contractor on an overseas base pleaded guilty on Nov 8 to killing a US Air Force doctor with a forklift in 2020.
Ari Taylor, 32, of Roxboro, was using a forklift to deliver pallets of water on Al Ahafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, on Nov 27, 2020, the FBI said in a press release. At the time, Taylor was a civilian employee of a US military contractor.
