WARMINGTON: Toronto cops have sought justice for Jahkai, 15, since deadly shooting
· Toronto Sun
Jahkai Jack was just 15 when he was shot to death last summer.
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Since that happened at 10:30 p.m. on June 7, 2025 at Buttonwood and Charlton Settlement Aves., in the Mount Dennis neighbourhood near Weston Rd. and Jane St., Toronto Police have been working feverishly to find his killer.
Right from the beginning they had their sights on locating one male suspect wearing “dark clothing” who they believed “began a verbal exchange with Jack” and then “pulled out a gun and shot the teenager, who later succumbed to his injuries.”
On July 9, Det.-Sgt. Phil Campbell went to the media to talk directly to that suspect.
“If you are watching this, you need to understand that your actions have destroyed a family,” said Campbell. “I am asking you to do the right thing, and that is turn yourself in to police.”
Now, eight months later, Toronto Police are set to update this disturbing case, the city’s 14th homicide of 2025.
“On Thursday, February 26, 2026, investigators will be updating the media on the homicide of Jahkai Jack, 15,” said a Toronto Police media release. “The news conference will take place in the media gallery at Toronto Police Headquarters.” It will also be aired live on YouTube.
Shootings of youth too common
There are a lot of eyes on this one. It’s not normal that we live in a city where our young people are routinely gunned down. And no one should ever be complacent about such crimes, that happen far too often.
Later in the summer, on Aug. 16, 8-year-old JahVai Roy was shot to death in his own bed from bullets sprayed into his family’s Martha Eaton Way and Trethewey Dr.-area apartment building.
“Every necessary resource was used to find the individuals alleged to be responsible for taking the life of JahVai Roy,” Chief Myron Demkiw said when police announced the arrest of a 16-year old boy. “No stone was left unturned, and our officers diligently followed up with every bit of information they received.”
Toronto Police have been turning over a lot of stones on this one as well.
We can’t deny that the Greater Toronto Area has far too many shootings – and far too many kids being shot and killed.
He should have ‘made it home’
“Jahkai should have made it home,” Supt. Richard Harris told media at the time. “I want his family to know that we share in their grief.”
Calling it a “senseless act of violence,” the 12 Division unit commander said the crime “has shaken all of us.”
Jahkai Jack was an innocent victim of the gang world. It’s outrageous.
“He was not involved in any gangs or any kind of criminality,” Campbell told reporters last summer. “This was a completely unprovoked act of violence.”
He was just out with his friends.
Police seeking help from the public
One of the strategies police have used in this investigation is to reach out to the community and the public as a whole to get engaged in trying to get this killer off the streets.
“Help us find the person who killed Jahkai,” Campbell told the public.
He also warned people not to help this killer get away with it.
“If our investigation determines that you knew about the murder and helped the suspect in any way, whether by helping them escape or destroying evidence, you could face charges,” he said.
We will soon know more about what their investigation as uncovered. But one thing everybody agrees on is this was a terrible loss to a family and a community.
“He was just 15 years old, and he had his whole life ahead of him,” said Campbell.
Toronto Police’s Homicide Squad has been working 24/7 to get justice for Jahkai ever since it happened.