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Community rallies around family after child dies in tragic bus crash ABBY LUCIANO
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Community members are coming together to mourn a loss and rally support for a family after a four-yearold boy died and two other women, including the boy’s mother, were injured after being struck by a bus driver in Horseshoe Bay last Wednesday.
West Vancouver police responded to a crash at Keith Road and Bay Street around 3:30 p.m., May 28, where three pedestrians were reported “to be pinned beneath a transit bus,” according to a release from West Van police. Firefighters and paramedics were on scene to provide life-saving efforts for the three individuals, police said in a statement last week. Four-year-old Leonardo Machado died at the scene. His mother, Silvana Schramm, is still in hospital but in stable condition. The second woman, who is believed to be a family friend, was also taken to hospital and is in stable condition. Theresa Morrison, a friend and co-worker of the boy’s father, launched a GoFundMe Sunday to raise funds to help the family with funeral and transportation expenses and ongoing rehabilitation for the mother. Morrison said has been overwhelmed by how much support she is seeing from the community to help the family. “Just knowing how many people have been touched by
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A memorial grows for four-year-old Leonardo Machado following a tragic bus crash May 28 outside of the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal that left the boy dead and two other women injured, including the boy’s mother. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN this tragedy, I know … the message that [the father] has for everyone right now is that tragedies can and do bring people together, and tragedies can defeat you or you can succeed them,” Morrison said.
Morrison and her husband are owners of AJ’s Brooklyn Pizza Joint in Vancouver, where the boy’s father, Clineu Machado, has worked for the last four years. Continued on A24
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