“He gave me no choice. He reached for the gun and there was nothing I could do,” Loehmann told a fellow officer in the moments after he shot Tamir at a gazebo outside the Cudell Recreation Center last Nov. 22.

The report also notes that Loehmann and his partner each refused to be interviewed by sheriff’s investigators. The report, however, notes the observations of fellow officers, many of whom said Loehmann appeared distraught after the shooting when police learned that Tamir was much younger than first thought and that his gun was actually a BB gun.