REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt//File PhotoDENVER, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man killed in 2019 after an encounter with police in Aurora, Colorado, died of an overdose of the powerful sedative ketamine that was injected by paramedics, a new autopsy report released on Friday concluded.
Three police officers and two paramedics were criminally charged in McClain’s death in 2021, following protests.
The officers subdued McClain with a carotid neck hold and handcuffed him, according to an indictment.
Paramedics then arrived and injected him with a dose of ketamine too high for someone of his weight, according to the autopsy.
Following the outcry, Colorado Governor Jared Polis appointed the state’s attorney general to review McClain's death.