A grand jury on Monday decided not to file charges against the two Cleveland police officers involved in the controversial fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty called the Nov. 24, 2014 shooting "a perfect storm of errors" while clearing Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback during a press conference on Monday, according to .
The decision comes more than 13 months after the shooting. Over the span of nearly three months, the grand jury heard conflicting reports written by five experts in police use of force, statements read by the officers and testimony from Rice's relatives.
The officers each wrote that they saw the boy pulling what they thought was a real gun out of his waistband before Loehmann shot him from close range.
The officers shot the boy at the Cudell Recreation Center after responding to a report of a armed person who a caller said was scaring people.
It was later revealed that the boy had been playing with a replica pellet gun with the orange safety tip removed and the caller had told the dispatcher that the gun was "probably fake" and that the suspect was "probably a juvenile."
Those important details were not relayed to the officers.
The entire interaction was captured by a city-owned surveillance camera and lasted less than two seconds.
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office released three reports from national experts in police use of force that each found that the shooting was reasonable because the officers did not know the boy's age or that the gun was fake.
