City of Cleveland wants the estate of Tamir Rice to pay his ambulance ride, life support bills

The estate of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in 2014, was notified Wednesday that it owes the city $500 for "ambulance advance life support" and mileage for Rice's ambulance ride to a medical center.

The city's assistant law director filed the claim in Cuyahoga County Probate Court Wednesday. "The callousness, insensitivity, and poor judgement required for the city to send a bill — its own police officers having slain 12-year-old Tamir — is breathtaking," Rice family attorney Subodh Chandra said in a statement. "This adds insult to homicide."

Rice was shot by Officer Timothy Loehmann on Nov. 22, 2014, after he was spotted playing with a replica airsoft gun in a Cleveland park. The person who called 911 told the operator Rice looked to be a juvenile and the gun was possibly fake, but the information was not relayed to the officers. Loehmann shot and killed Rice within two seconds of arriving at the park, Cleveland.com reports, and the Rice family has filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Cleveland, arguing that Loehmann and Officer Frank Garmback showed no concern for Rice's welfare, standing around him for four minutes without offering any first aid. An FBI agent then arrived and gave him assistance. In December, a grand jury declined to indict the officers.

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