Parson commutes sentences of two high-profile inmates

Governor Mike Parson has commuted sentences of two high-profile Missouri inmates. 

Ex-Kansas City Police detective Eric Devalkenaere was one. 

He was convicted in 2019 of second-degree involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Cameron Lamb. 

Police had gone to Lamb’s home after reports he’d been chasing another vehicle in his car. 

Lamb was shot in his garage and wasn’t armed. 

The other sentence commuted — that of Patty Prewitt, the longest-serving female prison in Missouri. 

She was sentenced to 50 years for the shooting death of her husband while he slept in 1984. 

Prewitt, now 75, has long maintained her innocence and said she was attacked that night too.