CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The family of Tamir Rice will appear at a press conference this morning to speak about the death of the 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by Cleveland police.
Rookie Cleveland police officer Tim Loehmann shot Tamir Nov. 22 saying the boy reached for what appeared to be a gun tucked into his waistband. The gun turned out to be an airsoft pellet gun.
Loehmann shot Tamir twice. The boy died in the hospital the next day.
His death became part of a national conversation on how police interact with black citizens that intensified when grand juries declined to indict police who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner in Ferguson, Missouri and New York, respectively.
Samaria Rice appeared on Good Morning America Monday, where she called for the criminal prosecution of Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, the two officers involved in the Nov. 22 shooting at Cudell Recreation Center.
'(Tamir) had a promising future,' Rice said during the interview. 'He was talented in all sports, he was very helpful, very caring, very king. He was my baby.'
Rice appeared alongside her new attorney, Benjamin Crump, who is also representing the families of Brown and Trayvon Martin.
Rice will speak at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church at 11 a.m. Monday. Northeast Ohio Media Group will cover the press conference live in the comments section of this post.
Watch press conference live courtesy WKYC.com at 11 a.m. (video not available on some mobile devices)
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