A Maryland man convicted of murdering a Wintergreen police officer in a drug-induced psychotic break from reality, a June 2023 shooting that shocked Nelson County, was sentenced to 48 years in prison Monday.

Daniel Adam Barmak, 25, pleaded guilty in February to second-degree murder, two counts of malicious wounding and use of a firearm in commission of a murder in the June 16, 2023, series of events that killed Chris Wagner, the first officer to arrive at the scene that night at 80 Arrowwood Lane in the Nelson resort community.

Wagner, 31, encountered a fully nude Barmak in the woods outside a cabin, and during the struggle over the officer’s gun, Wagner was shot in the back of the head five times and once in the abdomen, killing him, Nelson County Commonwealth’s Attorney Daniel Rutherfo

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