The family of Eric DeValkenaere, the only Kansas City Police officer ever convicted of killing a Black man, filed a clemency request Tuesday with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.
The request has long been rumored — and feared by the family of Cameron Lamb, the 26-year-old DeValkenaere fatally shot. Last week, Lamb’s mother, Laurie Bey, and stepfather, Aqil Bey, publicly asked that the governor refrain from a pardon.
DeValkenaere, 44, remained in the Platte County jail on Tuesday. He was found guilty of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action by a Jackson County judge in November 2021 for killing Lamb. In March 2022, DeValkenaere was sentenced to six years in prison.
Jonathan Shiflett, DeValkenaere’s attorney, said he had received in informal clemency request from the family, “along with hundreds of additional calls and…
