Timothy Donald Rice

Less-than-lethal force

Responding to a call of an attempted suicide, police arrived at an apartment complex in the 2200 block Willow Creek Drive in Southeast Austin at 9 a.m. July 24 to find Timothy Rice with what appeared to be self-inflicted wounds, police said. When the officers confronted Rice, he threatened them with a tomahawk, police said. One officer shot him with a bean-bag shotgun, they said, and a Taser was later used on him during a struggle with officers. Austin-Travis County EMS took Rice to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where he was pronounced dead the following afternoon, police said.