"The narrative most people believe was that he started drumming when he was 3," Lynette McElhaney told the Bay Area Reporter. "He was drumming as soon as he could sit up.
When I asked, at age 1, 'how are you?' He'd say: 'I drum.'"Victor McElhaney grew up to become a 21-year-old jazz musician at the University of Southern California.
This month's Oakland Pride prompted his mother to open up about his killing last year."Victor was a very dynamic human being — one of those people who was truly renaissance," McElhaney, who has represented District 3, which includes West Oakland, Jack London Square, and nearby neighborhoods, on the Oakland City Council since 2013, said.