Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, was fired because investigators found he wasn't truthful about his employment history when he applied for the job, officials said.
The officer who was with Loehmann, Frank Garmback, will be suspended for 10 days because he violated tactical rules relating to how he drove to the scene that day, the city's public safety director and the police chief said.
None of the rule violations announced by Public Safety Director directly related to Loehmann shooting Rice outside a recreation center as the boy held a toy gun on November 22, 2014. The officers were responding to 911 call of someone holding a gun.
An Ohio grand jury declined to criminally charge the officers for the shooting.
