A man charged in a Vaughan crash that claimed the lives of three young children and their grandfather will remain in custody until his next court appearance on Nov. 26.
Marco Muzzo, a 29-year-old King Township resident, briefly appeared in a Newmarket court via video link Thursday on several charges in connection with the deadly crash, including impaired driving causing death, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm.
Nine-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his five-year-old brother Harrison and their two-year-old sister Milly were killed along with their 65-year-old grandfather Gary Neville on Sept. 27 when their van was t-boned by an SUV at Kirby Road and Kipling Avenue near Kleinburg.
The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother, who were also in the car at the time of the crash, survived the tragic collision.
Speaking to reporters Thursday morning, the children’s mother Jennifer Neville-Lake said she intends to keep coming to all of Muzzo’s court appearances.
“It is our duty I guess as parents. This is the only part that we have left. We need to come,” she said.
When asked what it felt like to see Muzzo at Thursday’s appearance, she said she and her husband are past the anger phase.
“It’s beyond anger, it’s beyond rage. We are in the questioning stage -- ‘Who are you to have done this to us?’. We paid such a high price for what?” she added.
Neville-Lake said that while they have no control over what happens in the courtroom, she hopes something good can come from the death of her children.
“I’d like to think my children weren’t stolen from us for no reason. I’d like to think their deaths are going to make a difference in that it becomes a deterrent,” she said.
