The family of Jazmir Tucker hired attorneys with The Cochran Firm Ohio days after the 15-year-old was fatally shot by an Akron police officer on Thanksgiving Day.

The department says the officer saw the teen with a loaded gun before firing. The suspect, since identified as 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker, later died at the hospital.

A 15-year-old Ohio boy has been identified as the armed individual who was killed in a shooting by police on Thanksgiving night.

An Akron, Ohio family is demanding answers after a police officer shot and killed a 15-year-old boy last week.

A 15-year-old boy, whom authorities said was carrying a loaded firearm when he was fatally shot by police officers late Thursday, was a ninth-grader at North High School, according to Akron Public Schools.