06-13-2015, 08:54 PM
Investigative Report Release Today
There's a lot of pressure for movement in the case.
Prosecutor McGinty today released the Sheriff's investigative report, to demonstrate transparency to the community and to the public at large.
The report does not include conclusions; it reports the facts gathered and the witness accounts only. The Grand Jury will determine whether criminal charges are justified. INVESTIGATIVE REPORT (six PDFs): http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/en-u...-Rice.aspx
Some takeaways from the investigative report:
- Investigators noted that Tamir was in a 6-person special ed sixth-grade class. He was big for his age and the officers thought he was older. Witnesses who were interviewed told investigators that Tamir carried himself as a child, was prone to exaggeration, and was sometimes picked on by other kids at the rec center.
- The boy who gave Tamir the airsoft earlier in the day did so in trade for a cell phone. They were gonna trade back later. The boy was a neighbor and had taken the airsoft gun apart earlier but told investigators that he didn't know how to put the orange cap back on. He says he told Tamir to be careful.
- The off-duty FBI agent who finally rendered first aid to Tamir when he arrived on the scene four minutes after the shooting told investigators that Officers Loehmann and Garmback had not rendered aid; the agent said they seemed shell-shocked and like they didn't know what to do.
- The FBI agent said Tamir was alive and told him his name and mumbled something about the gun while he was still conscious (he died at the hospital the next morning).
- The FBI agent said that Loehmann told him "he had no choice" and that he'd told Tamir to freeze and drop the gun several times before shooting. Loehmann sprained his ankle at the scene.
- Three witness said they heard 2 or 3 shots; none of them said they heard the officers tell Tamir to freeze or put his hands up before the shots, but one said that he heard the officer scream for Tamir to freeze after the shots were fired. Tamir was hit once.
- Sheriff's detectives wrote that from witness interviews it was unclear if Loehmann shouted anything to Tamir from inside the cruiser before opening fire within 2 seconds of rolling up and shooting Tamir at a range between 4 1⁄2 and 7 feet, and that the video appeared to show Tamir made a motion for his waistband before the shots.
- Officers Loehmann and Garmback refused to be interviewed by investigators.
There's a lot of pressure for movement in the case.
Prosecutor McGinty today released the Sheriff's investigative report, to demonstrate transparency to the community and to the public at large.
The report does not include conclusions; it reports the facts gathered and the witness accounts only. The Grand Jury will determine whether criminal charges are justified. INVESTIGATIVE REPORT (six PDFs): http://prosecutor.cuyahogacounty.us/en-u...-Rice.aspx
Some takeaways from the investigative report:
- Investigators noted that Tamir was in a 6-person special ed sixth-grade class. He was big for his age and the officers thought he was older. Witnesses who were interviewed told investigators that Tamir carried himself as a child, was prone to exaggeration, and was sometimes picked on by other kids at the rec center.
- The boy who gave Tamir the airsoft earlier in the day did so in trade for a cell phone. They were gonna trade back later. The boy was a neighbor and had taken the airsoft gun apart earlier but told investigators that he didn't know how to put the orange cap back on. He says he told Tamir to be careful.
- The off-duty FBI agent who finally rendered first aid to Tamir when he arrived on the scene four minutes after the shooting told investigators that Officers Loehmann and Garmback had not rendered aid; the agent said they seemed shell-shocked and like they didn't know what to do.
- The FBI agent said Tamir was alive and told him his name and mumbled something about the gun while he was still conscious (he died at the hospital the next morning).
- The FBI agent said that Loehmann told him "he had no choice" and that he'd told Tamir to freeze and drop the gun several times before shooting. Loehmann sprained his ankle at the scene.
- Three witness said they heard 2 or 3 shots; none of them said they heard the officers tell Tamir to freeze or put his hands up before the shots, but one said that he heard the officer scream for Tamir to freeze after the shots were fired. Tamir was hit once.
- Sheriff's detectives wrote that from witness interviews it was unclear if Loehmann shouted anything to Tamir from inside the cruiser before opening fire within 2 seconds of rolling up and shooting Tamir at a range between 4 1⁄2 and 7 feet, and that the video appeared to show Tamir made a motion for his waistband before the shots.
- Officers Loehmann and Garmback refused to be interviewed by investigators.