The U.S. Department of Justice will review the case of an unarmed 18-year-old Bronx teen who was fatally shot by a police officer to determine if any civil rights laws were violated, federal officials said Thursday.

The review comes after a Bronx grand jury on Wednesday declined to indict the officer, Richard Haste, 31 years old, in the 2012 killing of Ramarley Graham.

Mr. Haste initially was indicted on a charge of manslaughter by a different grand jury in June 2012.

Those charges were overturned in May by a Bronx judge. In that ruling, the judge said prosecutors improperly told grand jurors that, in weighing whether Mr. Haste acted properly, they could disregard evidence that other officers told Mr. Haste they believed Mr. Graham was armed just before the shooting.

Mr. Haste shot the teen inside his home after a police chase.

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