CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Timothy Loehmann, the rookie police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, was fired Tuesday. 
 
 His partner, Frank Garmback, who pulled his cruiser within feet of the young boy, was suspended for 10 days without pay. 
 
 Loehmann was fired not for shooting Tamir, but for lying on his application with the Cleveland police department. He was also in his probationary period as a Cleveland officer giving the department more flexibility in letting him go, Cleveland Public Safety Director Michael McGrath said. 
 
 Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association president Steve Loomis said he will address the disciplinary measures at a 3 p.m. news conference. 
 
 Loehmann was a Cleveland police officer for less than eight months before the November 2014. He shot Tamir in less than three seconds after arriving at Cudell Recreation Center. 
 
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 The announcement effectively closes the door on a more than two-year investigation into what is widely considered one of the most high-profile police-involved shootings in Cleveland's history. 
 
 Tamir's death amid a series of other controversial, high-profile police-involved shootings across the country and sparked dozens of protests in Cleveland. The public outrage over the shooting heightened after grand jury declined to indict either officer. 
 
 A disciplinary letter released in January specifically says that Loehmann lied about how his short stint at the Independence Police Department ended. 
 
 Loehmann was allowed to resign from the Independence department after six months following a series of incidents where supervisors determined he was unfit to be a police officer. 
 
 The disciplinary letter cites a letter in Loehmann's personnel file from Independence that says he was emotionally immature and had "an inability to emotionally function." The letter also cites an emotional breakdown Loehmann had on the gun range in Independence. 
 
 Cleveland officials said in the letter that Loehmann was supposed to disclose that information. He was also supposed to say in his application that he failed a 2009 written exam when applying to work as an officer in Maple Heights. Loehmann never mentioned the Maple Heights test. 
 
 Garmback's disciplinary letter said he used improper tactics when driving to the rec center, which put Loehmann in danger. 
 
 Two others have been disciplined in the case: the 911 call taker, Constance Hollinger, and officer William Cunningham, who was working was working off-duty at the rec center without permission. He received a two-day suspension without pay. 
 
 Hollinger was suspended eight days without pay for failing to relay critical information to a dispatcher, Beth Mandl, who sent Garmback and Loehmann to the rec center. 
 
 Hollinger failed to tell Mandl that the 911 caller told her that Tamir was "probably a child" and that that the airsoft pellet gun he had was "probably fake." Mandl told Garmback and Loehmann to investigate a report of a "guy with a gun" scaring people outside the center. 
 
 Then-Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said Hollinger's omission was a crucial mistake that directly impacted how the officers handled the call. McGinty said the shooting might have been avoided if the information was properly relayed to the officers. 
 
 The city paid a $6 million settlement to Tamir's family, which is likely the largest settlement the city has paid in a police-shooting case. 
 
 A review committee comprised of city officials that took the place of a normal internal affairs investigation found that neither officer violated any police policies. 
 
 The panel, called the Critical Incident Response Committee, concluded that neither Garmback, nor Loehmann violated any police policies at the time of the incident. 
 
 They concluded that Garmback took a path towards Tamir that other officers regularly used, that he wasn't driving too fast and that he tried to stop sooner than he did, but skidded on the wet grass. 
 
 That put Loehmann in a position where he got out of the cruiser and was directly in line with Tamir. Dispatcher Constance Hollinger had told the officers that someone had a gun at the park, but failed to tell them the initial 911 caller said that it was "probably a juvenile" and that the gun was "probably fake." 
 
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 An Ohio prosecutor released a comprehensive account of the investigation into the death of Tamir Rice on Saturday, including witness reports that contradict a police officer’s claim that he shouted a warning before shooting and killing the 12-year-old boy last November. 
 
 Tamir was shot as he played in a Cleveland park, after police responded to a 911 call reporting a male with a firearm. He was playing with a toy plastic gun. The death and a delay in its investigation sparked public outrage and protests. 
 
 On Thursday, Cleveland municipal court judge Ronald Adrine said he found probable cause to bring a murder charge against the officer who fired the fatal shot, Timothy Loehmann. Adrine’s ruling, which prosecutors will consider, followed a request to look into the case by a group known as the Cleveland 8, a number of clergymen and local activists who support the Rice family. 
 
 In releasing a redacted 224-page account of the investigation by the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s department on Saturday, prosecutor Timothy McGinty said his intention was to be transparent. 
 
 “Transparency is essential for an intelligent discussion of the important issues raised by this case,” he said. 
 
 “If we wait years for all litigation to be completed before the citizens are allowed to know what actually happened, we will have squandered our best opportunity to institute needed changes in use-of-force policy, police training and leadership.” 
 
 The report made no conclusion as to whether the killing was justified, following a statement issued by McGinty on Thursday that a grand jury would ultimately decide whether criminal charges would be brought. 
 
 “As unbiased collectors of fact, the investigative team has not, and will not, render any opinion of the legality of the officers’ actions,” the report states. 
 
 Loehmann, 26, told investigators that when he arrived at the park and confronted Tamir, he told him several times to put his hands in the air, but the boy instead reached into his waistband and produced what turned out to be a toy gun. 
 
 “He gave me no choice, he reached for the gun and there was nothing I could do,” Loehmann said in his incident report. 
 
 Other officers at the scene reported that they thought the boy was aged about 20 and that they believed the gun was real. 
 
 None of the witnesses whose accounts appear in the report, however, say they heard Loehmann or any other officer shout a warning to Tamir, leaving detectives to conclude that “it is unclear whether Officer Loehmann issued verbal commands”. 
 
 A 31-year-old woman, whose name was redacted from the report, told investigators she heard someone shout “Freeze! Show me your hands”, but only after she heard two gunshots. She said she heard a third shot after the shouting. 
 
 A 15-year-old boy who knew Tamir said he heard two shots close together and a third a short while later. 
 
 Detectives heard from another friend who said he gave the boy the toy gun, which fired small plastic pellets, days before the incident. The friend said he had taken the gun apart and was unable to reattach the highly visible orange cap that would have immediately indicated the gun was not real. 
 
 Meanwhile, an FBI agent who was on duty at a separate incident nearby told how he gave Tamir first aid within four minutes of the shooting. The agent said Loehmann and an officer with him seemed to freeze. 
 
 “They wanted to do something, but they didn’t know what to do,” the agent told investigators. Tamir died in hospital the next day. 
 
 Loehmann declined to be interviewed by the investigators, as did his training partner, Frank Garmback, 47, who was also present at the scene. The grand jury will determine if charges will be brought against him. 
 
 Members of the Rice family similarly decided not to be interviewed. Walter Madison, the family’s attorney, could not be reached on Saturday for comment but issued a statement welcoming the report’s release. 
 
 “I appreciate the recent work of the Cleveland 8 and all others in this city in their tireless efforts to move the wheels of justice,” he said. 
 
 “The Honorable Judge Ronald Adrine swiftly and decisively found probable cause for murder and other homicide offenses. Within 36 hours we now have a public release of the county sheriff’s investigation. Let’s continue this fight for equal justice for all, it is working.” 
 
 Steven Loomis, president of the police union representing Loehmann, said he did not agree with the decision to publish the report. McGinty, however, said it was the right thing to do. 
 
 “The death of a citizen resulting from the use of deadly force by the police is different from all other cases and deserves a high level of public scrutiny,” he said. 
 
 “These cases involve officers [and] public employees whose decision to take a fellow citizen’s life must be evaluated to determine, by law, whether the police officer’s action was reasonable under the circumstances and therefore justifiable.”
– More than two years after fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun, Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann has been fired, Cleveland.com reports. According to WKYC, Loehmann wasn't fired for Tamir Rice's death but rather because the investigation into it led officials to discover he wasn't forthright on his application to join the police department. Loehmann, who'd been with the Cleveland police department for less than eight months when Tamir was shot, was allowed to resign from his previous department after six months when supervisors determined he had "an inability to emotionally function." Loehmann had an emotional breakdown at the gun range and had also failed a test to join another department years earlier. He didn't disclose any of that on his application in Cleveland. Loehmann's partner, Frank Garmback, was suspended for 10 days without pay for driving in a manner that put Loehmann at risk during the 2014 incident. Neither officer was charged in connection with Tamir's death. Constance Hollinger, a 911 operator, was suspended for eight days without pay for relaying incomplete information to police. She mentioned a "guy with a gun" at a recreation center without the added details that it was "probably a child" and the gun was "probably fake." Loehmann shot Tamir within three seconds of arriving at the scene. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says the disciplinary process was "exhaustive." Cleveland 19 quotes the city's police chief as adding Tuesday: "Hopefully we won't have any more incidents like this."