Timothy Loehmann, Police Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice, Joins Force in West Virginia

Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice more than a decade ago, is now working for two departments in rural West Virginia, as first reported by Dragline.

Earlier this year, Loehmann, 37, was hired by the Snowshoe Resort Community District and the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office as a patrolman, a roster sheet for the department shows.

The hiring marks the latest stop in Loehmann’s often fruitless attempts to get another cop job since November 2014, when the then 22-year-old shot Rice at Cudell Commons two seconds after hopping out of his cruiser…

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