Families of 2 blacks shot by Ohio police want outside review
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The families of two black people fatally shot by city police renewed their requests Tuesday for independent investigations into the officers’ actions while describing the emotional toll of losing their loved ones.
Relatives of Tyre King, 13, and Henry Green, 23, sought to define them beyond details released in police records.
Green was “a typical kid” who played basketball, ran track and loved a good prank, his mother said. Tyre was a boy with many interests, mischievous, a “crumb snatcher” and a “mama’s boy — not in a bad way,” his grandmother recalled.
Witnesses have contradicted information from police in both cases, said attorney Sean Walton, who is representing both families. He said he planned to send letters to city officials Tuesday urging them to join Tyre’s family in requesting a U.S. Department of Justice review of the shooting. Letters were sent earlier on behalf of Green’s family, he said.