City asks for ambulance costs from family of boy shot dead by police

A 12-year-old boy’s estate has been asked to pay $500 (€443) for ambulance and medical services he received after being shot dead by a police officer in Ohio.

The city of Cleveland requested the money as Tamir Rice’s “last dying expense” in a creditor’s claim filed in Cuyahoga County Probate Court. The claim states the money is overdue.

A family lawyer called the claim “callous and insensitive”.

Tamir, who was black, was shot by a white officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation centre in November 2014.

A grand jury in December

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A Cleveland police union president called the city’s claim “unconscionable”.