Cleveland sends Tamir Rice’s estate a $500 ambulance bill for fatal shooting

Tamir was shot in November 2014 outside a city recreation center while playing with a pellet gun. Someone saw that Tamir was taking a gun and pointing it. Concerned, the person called 911 to have officers investigate.

The city of Cleveland withdrew a claim that Tamir Rice’s estate owed it money for driving the 12-year-old boy to the hospital and providing first aid after a city police officer shot him.

This past December, a grand jury declined to indict the responding officers in accordance with Cuyahoga Couny Prosecutor Tim McGinty’s recommendation.

The administrator for Tamir’s estate, Douglas Winston, told The Associated Press Thursday that he asked Cleveland for documents related to Tamir’s medical care and had never previously seen such a request result in a claim being filed in Probate Court, which is what occurred on Wednesday.

Chandra said the filing was “deeply disturbing” to the Rice family. Mayor Jackson says the bill should have been red-flagged and he will evaluate if discipline is warranted.

The reference to the claim’s being “time-barred” refers to a law blocking any claim “that is not presented within six months of the death of a decedent”, the family’s lawyers said.

Despite the appearance of the claim, which listed a due date for payment, “we never meant to bill them… we will not bill them”, Ball said.

Subodh Chandra (left), a lawyer for the Rice family, yesterday said the bill “adds insult to homicide“.

Now the city of Cleveland says they want more, $500 more for the ambulance ride that carried his dead body from the scene of the shooting.

22, 2014, the day Rice died – angered the family’s attorney as well as the head of the city’s police union.

His toy was missing the orange clip-on, which would have warned police and passers-by that the gun was not real.

“The Rice family is disturbed by the city’s behavior”.

The fatal shooting of the 12-year-old became a flash point in the national debate over police killings of African-Americans. No charges were brought against him, but Rice’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

They were escorted by police cars, and a notice taped to the door said the station was closed.