Ohio Supreme Court denies appeal of former officer Timothy Loehmann, who killed Tamir Rice

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The denial is seen as the likely end of Loehmann's attempts at being reinstated on the police force after being fired for lying on his job application.

in 2014, is now likely left without any other chances for reinstatement on the police force.

Rice had been playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center when Loehmann fatally shot him. The City of Cleveland later fired Loehmann in 2017—but not for killing Rice. Instead, he was dismissed from the police department for giving false information on his job application. It was determined he failed to disclose that supervisors from his previous job with the police department in Independence, Ohio, recommended his firing after finding him unfit for police work.

Loehmann was a rookie officer with the Cleveland Police Department when he shot Rice within seconds of arriving at the scene. He and his partner were responding to a call from a man who said someone was waving a gun around at a recreation center. The man also told the 911 dispatcher the gun was"probably fake," and that the person holding might be a juvenile. That information was reportedly not related to the responding officers.

A grand jury declined to indict Loehmann, and he was never charged for a crime in the killing. Fellow patrolman Frank Garmback, Loehmann's partner and the driver on the day of the shooting, was also not charged. Both officers were criticized for waiting four minutes to deliver first aid on the child after he was shot.

 

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