{"id":156877,"date":"2025-09-20T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156877\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T10:48:19","slug":"police-get-permission-to-name-teen-suspects-in-murder-of-8-year-old-toronto-boy-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156877\/","title":{"rendered":"Police get permission to name teen suspects in murder of 8-year-old Toronto boy &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Police have been granted special permission to identify two teenagers accused in the fatal shooting of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/jahvai-roy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">JahVai Roy<\/a>, an eight-year-old boy who died in his bed in Toronto in August.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298208_703_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, police said they had received judicial authorization to release the names and images of 17-year-old Ibrahim Ibrahim and Amarii Lindner, who was 17 when the shooting happened.<\/p>\n<p>Both are accused by police of first-degree murder and have evaded arrest since the shooting was first reported last month.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-figure__image\" alt=\"Ibrahim Ibrahim (left) and Amarii Lindner (right).\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3c4e979d-f3fb-4bf9-8c57-7963c7423376.jpg&amp;w=12&amp;h=12&amp;crop=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3c4e979d-f3fb-4bf9-8c57-7963c7423376.jpg\"   data- data- width=\"571\" height=\"356\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tIbrahim Ibrahim (left) and Amarii Lindner (right).\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tTPS\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 16, JahVai was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11338987\/boy-killed-stray-bullet-sleeping-toronto-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lying in bed with his mother<\/a>\u00a0when shots rang out outside his home in the Martha Eaton Way and Tretheway Drive area at around 12:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Despite life-saving measures, police said JahVai was pronounced dead in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298209_554_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Police said stray bullets also entered two other building units and no one else was injured. JahVai\u2019s death sent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11345406\/vigil-for-toronto-boy-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shockwaves throughout the community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11437058\/d4vd-celeste-rivas-hernandez-family-statement-missing-teen-dead\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758365299_599_d4vd-celeste-rivas-hernandez.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFamily of missing teen found dead in singer D4vd\u2019s car speaks out\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11434416\/jimmy-kimmel-comments-about-charlie-kirks-death\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758365299_525_jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s what Jimmy Kimmel said about the Charlie Kirk shooting\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was at home when a group of people brazenly fired guns outside of his apartment building,\u201d said Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw at a press conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a week ago, after releasing an image, police successfully located and arrested a 16-year-old, who also faces a first-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, police and media are legally forbidden from naming or identifying suspects under the age of 18, nor can they release images of them.<\/p>\n<p>In certain situations, police are allowed to seek exemptions, which they received in this case. They will expire on Sept. 24 \u2014 or when the suspects are arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about Ibrahim or Lindner is asked to contact Toronto police immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Global News\u2019 Gabby Rodrigues<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police have been granted special permission to identify two teenagers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,82260,44,79076,80130],"class_list":{"0":"post-156877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-jahvai-roy","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-toronto-police","14":"tag-toronto-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}