KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City police detective has been sentenced to six years in prison for fatally shooting a Black man who was backing a pickup truck into a garage in 2019.
Eric DeValkenaere, who is white, was sentenced Friday afternoon to three years for second-degree involuntary manslaughter and six years for armed criminal action, with the sentences to run at the same time.
He was convicted in November of killing 26-year-old Cameron Lamb.
DeValkenaere will not go to prison immediately after his sentencing, however.
Judge J. Dale Youngs ruled in February that the former detective will be allowed to remain free while he appeals his conviction.
DeValkenaere’s attorneys had argued he was not a threat to flee.
