Samir El-Gamal, a 10-year-old Egyptian boy, died in his mother's arms last year, struck in the back of the head by a stray bullet while they were walking near clashes between supporters and opponents of deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
As Egypt votes this week on a successor to Morsi, Samir's loved ones now want authorities to declare the boy a "martyr," a term used to portray as heroes members of the security forces killed in fighting with Islamists.
They do not want Samir to have died in vain, just another bystander killed in the political struggle which erupted after then army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi removed the Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi from power last July.