A Colorado jury on Friday found two paramedics guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Elijah McClain near his home in Aurora. The 23-year-old Black man was walking home in 2019 when he was confronted by police officers who forcibly restrained him and then the Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics – Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec – injected him with ketamine.

He went into cardiac arrest in an ambulance a few minutes later and died three days later.