Elijah McClain's death caused by complications from ketamine injection following restraint, coroner says in amended autopsy report
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The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died after a struggle with police in Colorado, has been changed in response to new evidence from a grand jury investigation, Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan, confirmed Friday.
In August 2019, McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was walking home from a store when he was apprehended by Aurora police officers responding to a "suspicious person" call. Police said McClain had resisted and he was placed into a carotid hold.
Paramedics diagnosed McClain with "excited delirium" and administered the powerful sedative ketamine. He suffered a heart attack on the way to the hospital. Three days later, he was declared brain dead.
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