The city of Cleveland will pay Tamir Rice’s family $6 million in a wrongful death suit following the boy’s shooting death in 2014. The settlement, which was announced Monday morning, will be paid out in two separate sums of $3 million — one in 2016 and one in 2017.
The lawsuit was filed against the city and the two officers involved in 12-year-old Rice’s death, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback. In November of 2014, the officers responded to a 911 call about a boy with a gun at a rec center. The caller identified that the gun was “probably a fake.” But when the officers arrived on the scene, Loehmann, who was a rookie at the time, waited less than four seconds before exiting his police cruiser and gunning Rice down. Rice died the following day.
A grand jury declined to press charges against either one of the officers. As reported by Clevescene, the settlement states, “There is no admission of wrongdoing, and all plaintiffs will execute full releases against the City of Cleveland and all individual defendants.”
