A double life exposed: Ohio engineer and dad was genocide perpetrator, prosecutors say

Akron was in the middle of an unseasonable warm spell earlier this month when Homeland Security investigator Matthew Langille arrived at the corporate headquarters of Goodyear Tire & Rubber to meet with the company’s principal engineer.

Eric Nshimiye had worked at Goodyear in Ohio for 23 years. He joined the same year he graduated from University of Dayton with a degree in electrical engineering; just five years earlier he’d come to the US as a refugee from war-torn Rwanda.

Langille began posing a series of questions on March 11 to Nshimiye, now a suburban father of four known for mowing neighbours’ lawns and general congeniality. The federal agent asked how Nshimiye had come to the United States and what his political affiliation had been prior to the Rwandan genocide, during which the ethnic minority Tutsis were systematically hunted down and killed by Hutu extremists.

Langille asked, ultimately, if Nshimiye had been involved in raping or killing anyone during the genocide, which left 800,000 dead.

Nshimiye “first responded by shaking his head, laughing nervously, and asking for a drink of water,” Langille later wrote in court documents filed ten days later. “When