CLEVELAND — 3News Investigates has confirmed former Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice while on the job back in 2014, is once again no longer a law enforcement employee after briefly working for two such agencies in West Virginia earlier this year.
Word got out weeks ago that Loehmann had been hired both as a deputy for the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office and as a ranger for the Snowshoe Resort Community District. Just days after the news was made public, the SRCD’s board of directors unanimously voted to fire Loehmann, but his status with the Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office was still unclear.
On Tuesday, however, 3News Investigates obtained documentation showing Loehmann has not been employed by the sheriff’s office for months. Public records from the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security confirm Loehmann worked as a deputy in Gilmer County for just four days in August before his employment ended. The reasons for his departure were not made available…