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Killing of Earl Moore Jr.
2022 killing of a man by paramedics in Springfield, Illinois
On December 18, 2022, Earl Moore Jr. died after being tightly strapped face-down on a stretcher by paramedics in Springfield, Illinois. Moore, who was in distress and suffering from hallucinations and alcohol withdrawal, was yelled at and dragged by paramedic Peggy Finley, before she and partner Peter Cadigan strapped him to the stretcher. Moore was taken to the hospital, where he died an hour later.[1]
On January 9, 2023, Cadigan and Finley were charged with first-degree murder after an autopsy concluded that Moore's death was a homicide as a result of compressional and positional asphyxia.[2]