Kamloops’ Elwood Delaney lost his 80-year-old grandmother, Dorothy Sewell, in Monday’s van attack in Toronto.
“She was the foundation for all things sports here in our family, that’s for sure,” said Elwood over the phone to CBC news.
“She loved her Maple Leafs. She loved her Blue Jays. I don’t think she ever missed a Blue Jays game,” he said.
Delaney believes his grandmother was was walking to the bank on Yonge St. from Ellerslie Avenue when she was killed.
Alek Minassian, 25, was charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder for allegedly plowing into pedestrians along a strip of one of Toronto’s busiest streets on Monday.
The attack
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