FORT LAUDERDALE – The family of a McArthur High School junior who was killed in an apparent lightning strike this week said his death and the way he died is “unfathomable.”
According to family and friends, Cameron Day, 16, was riding his bike home from band practice on Wednesday when he stopped in a neighborhood just south of Pines Boulevard off Southwest 67 Avenue. It was there, while taking cover under a tree, that he was apparently struck .
His parents, Cameron Day Sr. and Lealani Roker, said he was the youngest of their four children and their only son. They said Cameron had overcome so much.
“Cameron was diagnosed with autism at the age of four, and with early intervention and our determination for him to be able to fend for himself if anything was to ever happen to us, he BEAT THE ODDS! Cameron was a tuba player at McArthur High School, a member of SGA, and an Ambassador of the Florida Atlantic University Upward Bound Math and Science TRIO Program,” the couple said in a statement.