Sentencing for woman convicted of killing Cleveland Police Officer Shane Bartek

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – The 19-year-old girl convicted on a number of costs, together with aggravated homicide, for the taking pictures dying of an off-duty Cleveland police officer, shall be sentenced Tuesday afternoon by Cuyahoga County Court docket of Frequent Pleas Choose John O’Donnell.

On Aug. 3, a jury discovered Tamara McLoyd responsible of killing Officer Shane Bartek on Dec. 31, 2021 in Cleveland’s West Park neighborhood.

Bartek was employed by Cleveland police in August 2019 and served with the Fifth District.

McLoyd was 18 years outdated on the time of the crime.

“She was a terrorist on our streets,” mentioned Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley.

After the lethal taking pictures within the car parking zone of an condominium constructing within the 4300 block of Rocky River Drive, McLoyd fled the scene in Officer Bartek’s private automotive.

Anthony Butler Jr. was arrested driving Bartek’s stolen automobile a number of hours later after a police pursuit involving a number of Northeast Ohio regulation enforcement companies.

On June 29, Butler pleaded responsible to unauthorized use of a motorized vehicle, failure to conform, receiving stolen property and obstructing official enterprise.

Butler was sentenced to 3 years in jail.

McLoyd, who was taken into custody at a gasoline station a number of hours after the deadly taking pictures, didn’t take the stand in her personal protection throughout the trial.

On Aug. 25, McLoyd was additionally convicted of 5 counts of aggravated theft, two counts of kidnapping, one rely of getting weapons beneath incapacity and one rely of improperly dealing with firearms in a motorized vehicle for a number of unrelated crimes in Northeast Ohio between November and December 2021.

She will even be sentenced for these crimes Tuesday afternoon by Choose O’Donnell.

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