![]() ![]() Sheri Kelemen remains in critical but stable condition, according to the hospital where she is being treated. The US Marshal service and local police immediately started a search, which took two days before Kelemen's body was discovered. Sheri was able to call 911 with officers rushing to the scene. ![]() This story was originally published Novem1:30 PM.According to Camden County prosecutors, police found the 22-year-old clinging to life inside her bedroom in her parents' Voorhees home on Monday morningĪt one point during the assault, the attacker cried out, 'I can't take it anymore,' according to the affidavit. They alleged the detectives, who were in plainclothes, did not ask for permission to walk onto the property and did not have a warrant.Īn expert for the defense said the detective had reasonable suspicion, allowing him to come onto Lamb’s property to investigate the chase he had been involved in. During opening statements, prosecutors alleged that evidence, including the gun found by Lamb, had been planted.ĭuring the trial, prosecutors described DeValkenaere’s conduct during the shooting as “reckless” and said it violated the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. DeValkenaere is charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of Lamb on Dec. The trial began Monday morning in Jackson County Circuit Court. On the ground near his left hand was a handgun, according to police.Īt the time, the KCPD placed DeValkenaere on administrative leave and issued a statement which said, “the officer was put in a position where he had to discharge his firearm.”Įric DeValkenaere, a Kansas City, Missouri police detective, who is accused of killing Cameron Lamb, testified Wednesday about what led up to the shooting of Lamb, who was backing his pickup truck into his garage. Police investigating the shooting found Lamb inside the vehicle with his left arm and head hanging out of the driver’s side window. The department said a police helicopter tracked the truck pulling into a residence, and two plainclothes detectives approached the man in the truck.ĭeValkenaere said that he fired after Lamb pointed a gun at his partner Troy Schwalm. Tammy Ljungblad responded to reports of a red pickup truck chasing a purple Mustang. ![]() The officer, who faces charges related to the shooting, was suspended with pay after the shooting but returned to work in January. Lamb, 26, a father of three, was shot shot and killed by a Kansas City police detective in December 2019. Family members of Cameron Lamb gathered in May 2020 at a Black Lives Matter peace protest in Mill Creek Park on the Country Club Plaza. ![]()
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