Elijah Jovan McClain (February 25, 1996 – August 30, 2019) was a 23-year-old black American man from Aurora, Colorado, who was killed as a result of being illegally [1] injected with 500 mg of ketamine by paramedics after being forcibly detained by police officers.

Oct 13, 2023 · One such case was Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after the police in Aurora, Colo., restrained him with a chokehold that has since been banned. Three...

Dec 22, 2023 · Two paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide Friday in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who was subdued by police and injected with ketamine in Aurora,...

Sep 14, 2024 · DENVER (AP) — A Colorado paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became part of the rallying cries for social justice that swept the U.S. in 2020, is being released from prison after a judge reduced …

Mar 1, 2024 · Paramedic Peter Cichuniec was sentenced Friday to five years in prison with a three-year period of parole for assault in the second-degree unlawful administration of drugs and criminally negligent homicide in connection with the 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain.

Dec 23, 2023 · Two Denver-area paramedics have been convicted of giving a fatal overdose of the sedative ketamine to Elijah McClain in 2019. Experts say Friday's verdict could have a chilling effect on first responders around the country.

Nov 7, 2023 · BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A jury on Monday acquitted a Denver-area police officer of manslaughter, following trial testimony that he put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died.

Apr 26, 2024 · Former paramedic Jeremy Cooper has been sentenced to a four-year probationary sentence Friday after being found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the final case connected to Elijah McClain's 2019 death.

Sep 23, 2023 · Three police officers and two paramedics have faced juries on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colorado. But the...

Mar 2, 2024 · A paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a fatal overdose of a sedative after police put him in a chokehold has been sentenced to five years in prison. Paramedics Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy...