A 12-year-old boy killed by Cleveland, Ohio, police last year had his hands in his pockets when he was shot and was not reaching for the pellet gun he was carrying, said an expert hired by the boy’s family to review a frame-by-frame video of the deadly encounter.
Tamir Rice did not have enough time to remove his hands from his pockets before being shot and his hands were not visible to the officer, said the report released late Friday night by attorneys for Tamir’s family.
The new report and two others from experts already used by the family are the latest analysis of evidence to be released as a US grand jury considers whether to bring charges against the officers.
The boy was shot after authorities received a report of a man pointing and waving a gun outside a recreation center in November last year. The officer who fired at Tamir, Timothy Loehmann, told investigators he repeatedly ordered the boy to “show me your hands” then saw him pulling a weapon from his waistband before opening fire.
It turned out Tamir was carrying a non-lethal gun that shoots plastic pellets when Loehmann shot him. Tamir died a day later.
Previous reports concluded that Loehmann shot Tamir within two seconds of opening his car door. The new analysis determined it happened within less than a second, said the review by California-based shooting reconstruction expert Jesse Wobrock.
With the patrol car windows rolled up, Tamir could not have heard commands to show his hands, Wobrock added.
“The scientific analysis and timing involved do not support any claim that there was a meaningful exchange between Officer Loehmann and Tamir Rice, before he was shot,” Wobrock said.
Wobrock said comparing the location of a bullet hole in Tamir’s jacket with the location of the wound on his body indicated that the boy had lifted his arm — with his hand in his pocket — at the moment he was shot.
Two other experts who previously reviewed the shooting for Tamir’s family looked at the new frame-by-frame analysis — released by the county prosecutor — and also concluded Tamir was not reaching into his waistband when he was shot.
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