Nathan Woodyard, 34, is charged with reckless manslaughter and a lesser included count of criminally negligent homicide in Elijah McClain’s 2019 death.
Aurora police Officer Nathan Woodyard, center, answers questions from Judge Mark Warner standing next to lawyers Andrew Ho, left, and Megan Downing, right, during an arraignment in the Adams County district court at the Adams County Justice Center January 20, 2023.
The officers did call for paramedics, and Aurora paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec injected McClain with a dose of ketamine. McClain suffered cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital, where he was later declared brain dead. He died Aug. 30, 2019. She said Woodyard unnecessarily escalated the encounter by using force on McClain within eight seconds instead of listening to what he was saying.
“He doesn’t get to know whether it’s Elijah McClain walking home with iced tea, or James Holmes walking into a movie theater,” Downing told jurors, referring to the killer in the Aurora theater massacre — and drawing an objection from prosecutors that was sustained. Joyce cast Woodyard’s choice to walk away as “abandoning” McClain, and said it shows how far he strayed from his training on how to care for a suspect after a carotid hold. She also showed“Elijah McClain was his responsibility,” Joyce said. “He’s the officer who chose to use the carotid hold. He’s the one who should be at his side.
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