Overview

• Gunfire outside an apartment near Martha Eaton Way and Trethewey Drive around 12:30 a.m. Saturday sent rounds through a first-floor window, striking 8-year-old Jahvai Roy as he lay in bed with his mother; he was pronounced dead in hospital, and stray bullets also entered two other units with no additional injuries.
• Detectives report no suspect or vehicle description, call the shooting a “cowardly, disgusting act,” log it as Toronto’s 26th homicide of 2025, and urge anyone with information to contact police or Crime Stoppers.
• Roy was the youngest member of the One-by-One Movement’s child and youth council, and his mother wrote that he sat up after hearing shots before being struck.
• Community groups set a vigil for Thursday at 5 p.m. outside 15 Martha Eaton Way, a solidarity rally is planned Friday at City Hall, and a GoFundMe for the family had raised more than $46,000 as of Monday.
• Mayor Olivia Chow cited police data that 88 percent of guns seized in 2024 were traced to the United States and highlighted added officers and expanded youth programs, while advocates including family spokesperson Marcell Wilson urge coordinated prevention and no retaliation.