Paramedics ‘did nothing’ to help Elijah McClain and killed him with overdose, prosecutor says

Prosecutor says lethal dose of ketamine killed the 23-year-old Black man, after he had been weakened by police neck holds

A Colorado prosecutor said on Wednesday that two paramedics“did nothing” to help an ailing Elijah McClain as he lay on the ground and instead injected him with an overdose of a powerful sedative that killed the 23-year-old Black man, after he had been weakened by police neck holds when officers forcibly restrained him as he was walking home from a convenience store.

A defense attorney, however, sought to shift blame to the officers during opening statements in the final jury trial over McClain’s 2019 death in a Denver suburb.