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

A jury has reached a split verdict in the trial of two Colorado officers who arrested Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in 2019 after being restrained by police and injected with ketamine by paramedics.

DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors seeking a conviction of two Colorado police officers in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain implored a jury during closing argu

Elijah McClain in an undated photo. -- Family photo(BRIGHTON, Colo.) -- A jury in Adams County, Colorado, has found Randy Roedema guilty of criminally negligent homicide and assault in the third degree in the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt were the two officers first tried in connection to McClain's death. Rosenblatt was found not guilty on charges of reckless manslaughter, assault in the second degree and criminally negligent homicide. The two men, along with Officer Nathan Woodyard, who was first on the scene, and two paramedics, pleaded not guilty. The tri...

Elijah McClain in an undated photo. -- Family photo(BRIGHTON, Colo.) -- A jury in Adams County, Colorado, has found Randy Roedema guilty of criminally negligent homicide and assault in the third degree in the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain. Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt were the two officers first tried in connection to McClain's death. Rosenblatt was found not guilty on charges of reckless manslaughter, assault in the second degree and criminally negligent homicide. The two men, along with Officer Nathan Woodyard, who was first on the scene, and two paramedics, pleaded not guilty. The tri...