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Colorado AG Opens Grand Jury Probe of Police Killing of Elijah McClain

HeadlineJan 12, 2021

Colorado’s attorney general is opening a grand jury investigation into the police killing of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man from Aurora. McClain was stopped by police as he was walking home in August 2019, tackled, placed in a chokehold, and later injected with ketamine by paramedics. He died days later.

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