The city of Cleveland is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy’s fatal shooting by police to an outside agency.
The city also says it would like a non-Cleveland agency to handle all deadly use-of-force cases.
City spokesman Dan Ball tells the Northeast Ohio Media Group for a story Thursday (http://bit.ly/13XxDZp ) that the city safety director has been in talks with Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County officials to hand the investigation over to the sheriff’s office.
For now, a Cleveland police deadly force investigation team is collecting evidence and conducting interviews related to the Nov. 22 shooting of Tamir Rice.
The boy was carrying an airsoft gun that shoots nonlethal plastic pellets when a rookie officer shot him Nov. 22 in a Cleveland playground.
