The father of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 10 days in jail or home detention and received a 12-month deferred sentence for assaulting a Colorado State Patrol trooper during a drunken-driving arrest, according to the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office.
Lawayne Mosley, 54, was sentenced in Arapahoe County District Court on Monday for the January altercation after pleading guilty to felony second-degree assault on a police officer and DUI in August.
Mosley was sentenced to 10 days in jail with credit for one day served, and the sentence can be served on home detention, according to the district attorney’s office.
He was also sentenced to 12 months probation on the DUI charge.
Mosley was stopped by a trooper on Jan. 20 after another driver reported he was weaving and not maintaining his speed while driving on Interstate 70, according to previous reporting.
Mosley didn’t follow the trooper’s orders to get out of the vehicle, and when the trooper “began to assist” him out of the car, Mosley assaulted the trooper.
Mosley identified himself as McClain’s father during the arrest, according to previous reporting. McClain, 23, died after he was wrongly arrested by Aurora police officers in 2019, who put him in a neck hold as a paramedic injected him with an overdose of ketamine.
His death led to the convictions of three first responders, court-ordered oversight and reform of the Aurora Police Department, statewide reform on ketamine use in police encounters and a civil rights lawsuit brought by McClain’s parents that the city of Aurora settled for $15 million.
An attorney for Mosley did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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