Ben Carson Staffer Killed In Car Crash, Campaigning Suspended

BuzzFeed - Carson in Iowa in October. Charlie Neibergall / AP Republican presidential contender Ben Carson on Tuesday cancelled all scheduled events after a campaign staffer was killed in a car crash in Iowa. Braden Joplin, 25, was volunteer among a group of four campaign staffers who were traveling in a van that hit a patch of ice, flipped on its side, and was struck by another vehicle, the Carson campaign said in a news release. The three other passengers in the van were treated and released, according to a statement from the trauma hospital Nebraska Medicine, where Joplin died shortly at 4:30 p.m. Scene of the crash on Tuesday. Iowa Department of Public Safety Carson planned to meet with Joplin's family later in the evening. Carson spokesman Jason Osborne told BuzzFeed News said the campaign was informed of the crash mid-morning, adding that the staffers were believed to be traveling to the city of Atlantic in Iowa to prepare for a campaign event lat