EMS Official's Facebook Post Said He Wished He'd Shot "the little criminal" Tamir Rice...

Official's Facebook Post Said He Wished He'd Shot Tamir Rice

An emergency medical services supervisor has been fired for a Facebook post saying he was glad a 12-year-old black boy fatally shot by a white Cleveland officer was dead.

The city confirmed the termination of EMS Capt. Jamie Marquardt on Friday. WJW-TV first reported Marquardt's Facebook post about Tamir Rice last month. A city spokesman called the post "egregious."

The post on Marquardt's Facebook page said he wished he'd had the chance to have shot "the little criminal." A follow-up post blamed someone who'd picked up his phone for the original post.

Tamir was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in November 2014 when he was shot by a policeman who thought the weapon was real.

Marquardt doesn't have a listed telephone number and couldn't be reached.