“She took his life in a single shot to the heart, and took mine,” Katie Wright, Daunte's mother, said through tears before telling Potter directly, “I will never be able to forgive you for what you’ve stolen from us”
, expressed her disappointment about the sentencing. She went so far as to say Chu “should be ashamed of herself.”
Throughout a week-long trial last year, jurors found that Potter was criminally negligent during the incident that began as a traffic stop. Testifying in her defense, Potter emotionally recounted the events leading up to Wright’s death—and even suggested the whole event may not have even started if the officer she was training didn’t initiate the stop.
But while Potter apologized for the incident and insisted she did not “want to hurt anybody,” prosecutors successfully walked jurors through the events that led to Wright’s death, calling her actions a “blunder of epic proportions.” About a second later, Potter fired a single shot at Wright’s left side before his car appeared to speed away for a few blocks before eventually crashing into another vehicle.