CLEVELAND (AP) - Investigators have cordoned off a playground in Cleveland where a police officer fatally shot a 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun last November.
Northeast Ohio Media Group reports (https://bit.ly/1E8F8dH ) that personnel from the Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County sheriff’s department and Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation were working Sunday at a recreation center playground where Tamir Rice was shot and killed. The sheriff’s department is the lead agency in the shooting investigation but has asked for BCI’s help.
Rookie officer Timothy Loehmann shot Tamir within seconds of a police cruiser pulling up beside the boy on Nov. 22 after someone called 911 to report that a male was pointing and waving a gun. Tamir was carrying a non-lethal, Airsoft-type gun that shoots plastic pellets.
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Information from: Northeast Ohio Media Group, https://www.cleveland.com
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