The Fairborn police officer involved in a fatal officer-involved shooting in February was not indicted after a grand jury reviewed the case, according to prosecutors.
Fairborn officer William Titley acted in defense of others when he shot and killed Rouven Loch, who was a suspect in seven armed robberies that occurred in Dayton, Fairborn and Kettering in a 24-hour period between Feb. 18-19, the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office said in a prepared statement.
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Titley was one of of the Region Emergency Response Team members that responded to a four-hour standoff at Loch’s mother’s home in the 1300 block of Eastview Drive in Fairborn.
Loch exited the home after tear gas was deployed into the residence. When Loch exited the house, prosecutor’s said he was holding what appeared to be a black handgun, and he pointed the weapon at nearby officers in a shooting stance.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Loch told negotiators that he had committed the robberies and that if he can out of the house “it would be with a gun and he would take out as many officers as he could,” the release said.
Agents with the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to the scene at the request of the Fairborn Police Department.
Agents collected evidence, documented the scene and interviewed approximately 70 witnesses over a number of weeks, the office said.
Ohio BCI determined the weapon Loch has in his hand was a Smith and Wesson M&P 45-cal pellet gun and was virtually indistinguishable from an actual Smith and Wesson M&P 45-cal handgun.
According to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office, an autopsy of Loch revealed that he had a blood alcohol level of 0.29 and he also had an acute intoxication level of drug Alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax.
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