Members of Colorado’s Black community expressed outrage Friday in the wake of a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the convictions of two former Aurora paramedics involved in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.
Gretchen Ryan, 55, is charged with second-degree murder in Grace Ryan’s death after investigators found she enabled and encouraged her daughter’s alcoholism even when Grace’s health plummeted to the point the teenager vomited blood and became incontinent.
Peter Cichuniec was supervising the paramedic who injected the drug, Jeremy Cooper, and both were convicted of criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s death.
The commission overseeing Colorado’s Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel placed the agency’s embattled leader Joanna Landau on administrative leave Thursday.
Brent Metz, former Mountain View councilman, faces four felony charges, including assault, illegal discharge of a firearm and menacing.
The federal complaint comes after Kilyn Lewis’ family filed a state lawsuit in Arapahoe County last year against both the city of Aurora and SWAT officer Michael Dieck.
Leetsdale fire update: Tony Becerra, an Aurora man suspected of setting fire to a partially built apartment complex on Leetsdale Drive in Denver, has been found incompetent to stand trial.
Michael Mott jumped Denver International Airport’s security fence Friday night and walked onto a runway, where he was fatally hit by Frontier 4345. Now, passengers are suing, Ramos Law and DJC Law say.