Eight-year-old victim of stray bullet was a budding anti-violence activist, family spokesperson says

Jahvai Roy, the eight-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a stray bullet while he was in his bed with his mother early Saturday morning in Toronto, was a budding activist against violence, a family spokesperson said in an interview.

The child, whose death has sparked outrage and calls for action on gun crime, was the youngest member of an organization devoted to stamping out violence in Canada’s largest city, Marcell Wilson said Monday.

“He was a very energetic, happy – genuinely happy, rambunctious, fearless little man who really had a good heart," said Mr. Wilson, a friend and spokesperson for Jahvai’s family.