Tamir Rice Killing: Cop Confirmed That 12-year-old 'Gave Him No Choice'

After shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice dead, the Cleveland police officer defended himself that he had "no choice," as the boy was trying to get a toy gun. A witness called the weapon looking "1,000 percent real," in a newly released report, according to rt.

The results of a probe into Rice's shooting were disclosed, giving the details of an FBI special agent's memory of the shooting's post analysis.

Written over four months by the county sheriff's deputies, the 224-page report documented the moments after the Rice shooting on November 22, 2014, in Cleveland, Ohio. About 26 witnesses had been interviewed by the sheriff department investigators.

There had been a couple of police officers---26-year-old Timothy Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback---who had responded to a "distress call" about a "male sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people" in a city park.

As soon as they arrived at the park, Loehmann jumped out of the police vehicle and shot at the 12-year-old black boy. He died in a hospital a day later. Witnesses say that Loehmann shot the kid after his orders had been ignored and when Rice reached for his BB gun.

The shooting unfolded over just two seconds. "They arrived on scene and were yelling commands at the kid, they stopped the car, the kid went for the firearm and tried to pull it out," Officer Lou Kitko, who talked to Loehmann at the scene, told the investigators.

However, civilian witnesses refuted the entire claim.

"He seemed like a guy that was put in a very difficult situation and had to make a very quick decision based upon what he believed was an imminent fear of death or serious physical injury to himself and reacted to it," the agent told investigators.

Both Loehmann and Garmback refused the interrogation by the sheriff department investigators.

Other law enforcement officers told prosecutors that Loehmann seemed distraught after he became aware that he had shot a young boy. One officer agreed that the gun looked "1,000 % real."

When the FBI agent asked the officer what had happened, he was given an explanation: "He said (Rice) had a gun, and he reached for it after he told him to show him his hands," the agent told investigators. "I think it was a very difficult situation for him to deal with and... probably now as the adrenaline was wearing off, I think the realization is kicking in that he just had to shoot somebody."

Moreover, the officers had no first aid kit in the car, and the special agent had to administer some first aid to Rice.

Rice's gun was discovered to be an Airsoft replica, without the orange safety feature visualization that could show that it was fake.

Now the evidence will be given to a grand jury that will decide whether it should press charges against officers Loehmann and Frank Garmback. "Transparency is essential for an intelligent discussion of the important issues raised by this case," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, as he released the report.