Vickie Hambrick enters the courtroom on July 2, 2021 Pool photo by Josie Norris, The Tennessean
Three years of a motherâs anguish and grief erupted in a Nashville courtroom Friday morning as Vickie Hambrick, her voice streaking out pained and furious, screamed at the former Metro police officer who killed her son Daniel on July 26, 2018, shooting him in the back as he ran away.Â
âI hate you!â she yelled before turning her attention to the judge, then the prosecutors, then back to the defendant again.Â
The previous day, District Attorney Glenn Funk informed her that he was accepting a plea offer from Andrew Delkeâs defense team. The officer â who resigned earlier in the week as part of the deal â would plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and a sentence of three years. Delke will likely end up serving no more than a year-and-a-half in jail with good behavior, not even a year for every bullet he fired into Da
Former officer in Tennessee pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter, sentenced to 3 years in prison
Former Metro Police officer Andrew Delke has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 2018 shooting of Daniel Hambrick. He will serve three years in prison without the possibility of an early release.
By: WTVF Staff
and last updated 2021-07-02 23:26:09-04
NASHVILLE, Tenn. â Former Metro Police officer Andrew Delke has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the 2018 shooting of Daniel Hambrick.
He was sentenced to three years in jail. However, his lawyer says he will likely serve about 18 months.
The long-awaited trial was supposed to start in just a little more than a week, but that all changed on Thursday when Delke s legal team and District Attorney Glenn Funk agreed to a plea deal for a lesser charge.