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Nashville Officer Facing Murder Didn’t Pull Gun During Earlier Foot Chase. He Was Criticized.

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Nine months before Nashville Officer Andrew Delke shot and killed Daniel Hambrick, he was criticized by his supervisors. But not for use of force. It was a night when Delke didn’t pull his gun.

Records uncovered by WPLN News provide a rare glimpse into the mind of police officer struggling to make sense of when to use his gun, and the mixed messages he received from his training, his supervisors and an increasingly wary public.

Chas Sisk, Senior Editor

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 and became an editor in 2018. Previously, he covered state politics for Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessean, and he’s also reported on communities, politics and business for a variety of publications in Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University, where he studied economics and journalism.

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