BOSTON -- The family of Kai Leigh Harriot, whose spine was severed by a stray bullet nearly three years ago, and city leaders hope the child's story will end violence on Boston streets.

NewsCenter 5's Jim Boyd reported that the paralyzed 6-year-old is featured on a new billboard on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester.

"They need to think about it. Bullets don't have names, but victims do," said Kai Leigh's mother, Tonya David.

David said her daughter and family have strong faith and are committed to promoting peace. In a Boston courtroom in April, the child offered forgiveness to the man who shot her. The child said forgiveness was possible because of her faith.

"I believed that I could do it," Kai Leigh said.

Also at Thursday's Ceremony was Tina Chery, whose son, Lewis Brown, was gunned down 13 years ago.

"You are hope and inspiration to those of us whose children didn't survive," she told Kai Leigh.

David said she hopes those traveling on Blue Hill Avenue will notice the billboard and take its message to heart.

"Make (peace) a part of their heart, a part of their soul, that it will reach them. They will know that we have to come together in peace and stop the violence," David said.

Kai Leigh was shot on July 1, 2003.