Abu Dhabi investigators will 'participate in the investigation' into the death of a 26-year-old shot and killed by US police after allegedly running away from a car crash site.

Abu Dhabi investigators are heading to the US after police in Ohio shot dead an Emirati, a state-owned newspaper in the United Arab Emirates has reported.

The Arabic-language Al Bayan newspaper also reported Thursday that the body of 26-year-old Saif Nasser Mubarak Alameri is on its way back to the United Arab Emirates for burial on Friday.

Authorities say Alameri, a student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, was shot once in the head on Sunday by police after fleeing a car crash on the Ohio Turnpike and fighting with an officer.

The newspaper says Abu Dhabi investigators will "participate in the investigation" of Alameri's shooting death. It did not elaborate.

The UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, is a stalwart US ally in the Mideast.