Yes, that caption might be inaccurate. I myself don't recall all the facts of the case. As for him being a little boy, he was 195 pounds according to the death certificate above.
"CLEVELAND — The police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice told investigators that the boy reached for a gun just before the patrolman opened fire.
"He gave me no choice. He reached for the gun and there was nothing I could do," Cleveland police Officer Timothy Loehmann told a fellow officer in the moments after he shot Tamir at a gazebo outside the a recreation center on Nov. 22.
The officer's words — released Saturday in a 224-page report from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty — mark the first time the Loehmann's account of the shooting was revealed."