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The jury has convicted one officer in the first trial connected to 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

(CNN) — Randy Roedema, one of the Aurora, Colorado, police officers who arrested Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died after he was subdued by police and injected

The jury has reached a split verdict for two Aurora police officers who are on trial for the death of Elijah McClain​.

The jury has convicted one officer in the first trial connected to 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain.

LONGMONT, Colorado (Reuters) -A Colorado prosecutor on Tuesday told jurors that two officers charged with manslaughter in the killing of Elijah McClain repeatedly and unreasonably assaulted the young Black man who died after a police stop in 2019. Defense attorneys, though, said others were to blame, including medical responders and even McClain himself. Prosecutor Duane Lyons told jurors in his closing argument the officers made no attempt to moderate their encounter with McClain as their train

Lawyers are delivering closing arguments in the trial of the first two officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.

By Andi Babineau and Eric Levenson, CNN

Prosecutors seeking a conviction of two Colorado police officers in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain have implored a jury during closing arguments to remember that he was just trying

(CNN) — Jury deliberations will continue Wednesday in the trial of two Colorado police officers who arrested Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after being