Aurora officer Randy Roedema, 41, and former officer Jason Rosenblatt, 34, each are charged with reckless manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault in connection with Elijah McClain’s…
Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph.
AURORA — Attorneys are expected to give opening statements Wednesday in the jury trial for the first two Aurora police officers criminally charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain., 34, each are charged with reckless manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault in connection with McClain’s death.of the five people indicted in the 2019 killing. Jury selection began Friday and is expected to be completed on Wednesday.
McClain, 23, was walking home from a gas station in Aurora on Aug. 24, 2019 — wearing a black ski mask as he often did — when someone called 911 to report a suspicious person. The responding officers detained McClain, violently forced him to the ground and handcuffed him before a paramedic injected McClain with the sedative ketamine. McClain suffered cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital, where he was later declared brain dead. He died Aug. 30, 2019.
McClain’s death drew outrage from across the country after the May 2020 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and led to
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