By Albert Lin
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled last week that the death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot by police on Nov. 22 while brandishing a toy pellet gun, was a homicide. The finding does not indicate whether a crime was committed; it merely means that Rice was killed by the police officer’s bullets, and that he did not die accidentally or from natural causes.
The official cause of death was listed as “a gunshot wound of the torso with injuries of major vessel, intestine and pelvis.”
