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Paramedic Who Injected Elijah McClain with Deadly Dose of Ketamine Is Released Early from Prison

HeadlineSep 16, 2024

In Colorado, a judge freed the white paramedic who was convicted of homicide for injecting Elijah McClain with ketamine in 2019, which led to McClain’s death in hospital soon after. Peter Cichuniec had been serving a five-year sentence for McClain’s death before a judge converted it on Friday to four years of probation. McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man, had been walking home from a convenience store when he was assaulted by Aurora police, who put him in a carotid hold, before paramedics administered an excessive dose of ketamine into his system.

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