Arrest warrant issued for former KC cop Eric DeValkenaere after appeals court ruling
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Eric DeValkenaere conviction
In 2021, KCPD detective Eric DeValkenaere was convicted in the fatal shooting of Cameron Lamb. It was the first time a Kansas City police officer was found guilty in the killing of a Black man.
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Update: Eric DeValkenaere surrendered at a jail in the Kansas City area Tuesday. That story is posted here.
An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Kansas City police officer whose conviction was upheld Tuesday in the shooting death of a Black man.
Eric DeValkenaere, who is white, was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the 2019 shooting death of 26-year-old Cameron Lamb.
A three-judge panel from the Missouri Court of Appeals of the Western District upheld the conviction Tuesday.
An arrest warrant issued immediately after the court released its ruling was sent to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, the Jackson County Marshal of Missouri Court of Appeals Western District and the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
DeValkenaere’s bond was revoked. He had remained on bond while he appealed his conviction.
The warrant requires authorities to take DeValkenaere into custody and deliver him to a Missouri prison where he will begin serving his prison sentence, according to an order signed by Chief Appeals Judge Gary D. Witt.
Capt. Corey Carlisle, a spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department, said the arrest of DeValkenaere would be arranged by the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
Jackson County Sheriff Darryl Forté said he has not been given any details but, “I anticipate an attempted low profile voluntary surrender.”
John Picerno, a criminal defense attorney, told The Star that DeValkenaere would immediately be sent to the jail of whatever agency takes him into custody.
“The process will begin so if he’s arrested, they’ll take him first to Jackson County and then he will go to prison directly from there during their next inmate pull which usually occurs within several days.”
It did not appear Tuesday that DeValkenaere had been assigned to a specific prison, according to Karen Pojmann, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Corrections.
Once in the custody of the department of corrections, DeValkenaerre would be assigned to one of the system’s three reception and diagnostic centers for men in St. Jospeh, Bonne Terre or Fulton, Pojmann said.
This story was originally published October 17, 2023 at 12:40 PM.
