Officer Charged in Death: Man Definitely Intended to Shoot

Officer Charged in Death: Man Definitely Intended to Shoot
Nashville Police officer Andrew Delke sits at his preliminary hearing at the Justice A.A. Birch Building in Nashville, Tenn., on Jan. 4, 2019. George Walker IV/The Tennesean/AP
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NASHVILLE—A white Nashville police officer told investigators that he knew “100 percent” that the black man he’s charged with fatally shooting intended to shoot at him and possibly others.

Prosecutors played the state investigator’s interview with Andrew Delke, 25, in a Nashville courtroom on Jan. 4, where dozens of police officers packed in to support Delke. The officers sat across from rows of family members and others there to advocate for Daniel Hambrick, the 25-year-old who died in the shooting as he ran from Delke and held a pistol.