Tamir Rice was a twelve-year-old boy who was fatally shot on November 22, 2014, at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Officers Timothy Loehmann, 26, and his partner Frank Garmback responded to a 911 call about a male with a gun. The caller said the gun was probably fake and the person was probably a juvenile, but that information was not passed to the officers. Rice was carrying a replica toy gun that lacked an orange-tipped barrel; Loehmann later said it appeared Rice was trying to draw a gun and fired twice from the patrol car, striking Rice once in the torso. Rice died the next day at the hospital.

Surveillance video was released four days after the shooting. A Cuyahoga County grand jury declined to indict the officers, and the U.S. Department of Justice later announced insufficient evidence to bring federal charges. The city settled a civil suit with Rice’s family for $6 million in 2016; the settlement did not include an admission of wrongdoing. Loehmann was fired in 2017 for lying about his work history, while Garmback remained a patrol officer.

Does anyone have firsthand information about the call or the moments at the park that afternoon?