Tamir Rice was a 12 year old kid playing with a pellet gun in Cudell recreation center in west boulevard in November 2014, when two police officers, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback responded to a call of somebody with a gun. Officer Timothy shot the kid. Tamir Rice died on the 23rd November, the day after the shooting. The shooting caused a lot of uproar in the U.S. and around the world about police brutality.
Tamir Rice estate will receive $5.5m and the boys mother Samaria and sister Tajai will each receive $250,000 each. $3m will be paid in 2016 and the remaining in 2017. But the payment needs a final approval from the Cuyahoga county probate judge.
The ruling left a lot of issues lingering. But the settlement might be a sign that the parties involved did not want to go through a tortuous legal battle that will last for years.
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