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Expert: Freddie Gray Likely Would Have Survived If Taken to Hospital Sooner

HeadlineDec 08, 2015

In Baltimore, medical experts have testified to a jury that 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who suffered a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody in April, might have survived if the police had taken him to a hospital sooner. The testimony came Monday as the trial against Officer William Porter entered its second week. Porter is the first of six officers who are being charged for Freddie Gray’s death.

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