An ex-Kansas City police officer has been sentenced to 6-years in prison last week for the murder of a Black man in 2019 CNN reported.

Eric DeValkenaere has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last November for the murder of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb. DeValkenare was sentenced to three years for involuntary manslaughter and six years for armed criminal actions.

Judge James Dale Youngs, ordered the sentences be served simultaneously. Laurie Bey, Lamb’s mother, said the sentence was “a fair decision” during a news conference after the decision.

“The mental pain that I deal with — that’s not going to go away,” Bey said.

“Preferably, it will shake up this police department. Shake up Kansas City,” Lamb’s stepfather, Aqil Bey said.  DeValkenaere’s lawyers previously requested that the former officer remain free after his sentencing so they can appeal the conviction he got in November, according to KSHB. The request has been granted by Judge Youngs.

According to CNN:

The fatal shooting happened on December 3, 2019, when DeValkenaere and his partner responded to a traffic incident involving a red pickup truck in Kansas City, according to the indictment.

A police helicopter had observed a red pickup truck driving, and entering a driveway at the back of a home. The officers, dressed in plain clothes and wearing police department vests, arrived at the home and entered the backyard without a legal warrant and with their guns drawn, the indictment states.

Lamb was “slowly backing” the pickup truck down a ramp into the basement garage, and DeValkenaere’s partner was on Lamb’s side of the truck and could see him when he arrived. The officers attempted to tell Lamb to stop, but it’s unclear whether he heard them, the indictment says.

DeValkenaere fired four times at Lamb, claiming he saw Lamb’s left hand reach for a gun and point it at his partner.

DeValkenaere’s partner says Lamb’s left hand was on the steering wheel the whole time with his fingers spread apart and held up his left hand with no gun in it, according to CNN.

DeValkenaere fired four shots, two of them hit Lamb.

Later investigators found there was a gun under Lamb’s left hand where the truck stopped, according to CNN. However, Lamb was right-handed and medical records show that from a previous injury, Lamb did not have full control of his left hand.

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