The Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Has Been Fired From Another Police Service. Again

Today, on the can’t keep a job Chronicles, the police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice has been fired from his fourth job in seven years.

According to the Guardian, Timothy Loehmann was fired on Friday from his job as a security guard at the Snowshoe Resort Community District (SRCD). “Guardian Tim Loehmann is no longer employed by SRCD. The SRCD Board met on December 19, 2025, to discuss personnel matters, and voted unanimously to terminate Tim Loehmann’s employment immediately,” the statement read.

“The Board also unanimously agreed to revisit SRCD’s hiring policies and staffing procedures, which will be added to the agenda at the next scheduled Board meeting in fourteen days on January 2, 2026.”

“Loehmann’s willingness to impose himself on other people seems unreasonable. So does the bad judgment required by any government officials who employ him.” Subodh Chandra, Rice’s family lawyer, wrote in a statement.

Loehmann gained notoriety as a Cleveland police officer in 2014 after he shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy.

Tamir Rice was playing with a gun in a local park when Loehmann shot him seconds after arriving on the scene. A grand jury failed to indict Loehmann, but he was fired by the Cleveland Division of Police. Not because of the shooting, but because they found that he failed to disclose that the previous police department found him emotionally unfit to continue his job. The city of Cleveland reached a $6 million settlement with the family of Tamir Rice.

“When he shot my son, he went to the back of the police car and abandoned himself. Do you want someone like that around you, who protects and works for you?” Samaria Rice asked during a recent interview with 3News. “He doesn’t even deserve to be a police officer, and it will take 11 years. I don’t think anything has changed.” Samaria Rice has vowed to make sure Loehmann does not practice law again.

Just last year, Loehmann resigned from the White Sulfur Springs Police Department in West Virginia due to backlash over his hiring. In 2022, Loehmann was hired by a police department in rural Pennsylvania but resigned just 24 hours after being hired due to, you guessed it, backlash over hiring someone who shot and killed a child.

At this point, you would really think that Loehmann would stop looking for jobs in law enforcement and that law enforcement agencies would stop hiring him. I know police departments are historically bad at hiring officers who have been fired for misconduct, but shooting a child to death should be reason enough not to hire someone.

It’s clear that no matter where he goes, Timothy Loehmann will rightly bear the shame of Tamir Rice’s death. It’s honestly cruel that he keeps trying to take legal action, knowing it will backfire and force Tamir Rice’s family to once again face the man who caused them so much pain. Just because the grand jury didn’t indict him doesn’t mean he’s acquitted of what he did, and there are no consequences.

At this point, Timothy Loehmann should do the Rice family, and frankly, himself a favor and stop trying to practice law.

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