13-year-old B.C. boy dies of drug overdose [Video]

Chayton Point loved to dance. Just ask his mom.

“He was quite the funny kid,” said Kristine Mason.

“He had a thing of doing the splits for years. I don’t know where he learned it, but he just did it,” she said, explaining he would incorporate the move into his dance routines.

But now the grieving mom is only left with memories of her boy.

Point died late last month of a drug overdose. He was just 13.

His mom recalls a child who was always the gentleman, even at a young age.

“We’d get somewhere in the car and he’d be, ‘Mommy, wait there.’ And he’d jump out of the car and run and open the car door for me,” she recalled.

But Mason said that when her son, who is Indigenous, was about 10 years old, he suffered deep trauma that he initially kept secret.

And the hurt he held inside changed him.

“It was about a year and a half ago, he started self harming himself,” she said.

Mason took him to counsellors …