Tony Gorman joined CPR News in 2022 as an afternoon general assignment reporter. In 2023, he took on a new beat focusing on criminal justice issues.
Professional Background:
Tony Gorman came to CPR with over 15 years of experience in public media and print. He gained most of his professional experience at community-licensed stations throughout rural Alaska. Gorman has also worked for WABE in Atlanta and Delaware Public Media.
Education:
Bachelor’s degrees in broadcasting and history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Master’s degree in Public Media from Ohio University
Both paramedics are charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and second-degree assault for their involvement in the death of McClain. All the charges are felonies.
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After testimony yesterday from the Adams County contracted pathologist that called the manner of death “undetermined,” Dr. Roger Mitchell looked at the same evidence and came to a different conclusion.
In effect, the prosecution was showing the jury the things that the officers are trained to do in situations where people struggle or when they say they can’t breathe, drawing lines to what was done that night in the forcible arrest of McClain.
The final selection of 12 jurors and two alternates is expected to wrap up today, followed by the opening statements in the first of three trials in the 2019 death of McClain while in police custody.
The story of the brothers and nephew who killed dozens of southern Colorado settlers in the 1860s is part history, part legend … and altogether grisly.
Summit County District Attorney Heidi McCollum said Officer Allen Jambor and Deputy Vincent Moquin were justified in their actions because the 18-year-old Foster posed an immediate danger to others.