We’re learning more about the family of a four-year-old boy who was killed after he was struck by a bus near the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal last week. His mother remains in hospital in critical condition. Leanne Yu has more on the growing community support for the family.
It was a clear, sunny day last Wednesday when Silvana de Oliveira Schramm and her four-year-old son Leonardo took a day trip to Bowen Island, off the Metro Vancouver coast.
She texted her husband Clineu Machado photos of their adventure, including one of them on the ferry’s sundeck, with Leonardo all smiles, the wind in his hair.
It would be the last photo of her and her son that she would send her husband.
That afternoon, back on the mainland and waiting at a bus stop at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver, the mother and son were hit by …