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"HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING"
Tsawwassen First Nation Family Demands Criminal Charges in Deadly Truth and Reconciliation Day Crash
On September 30, 2026, a devastating vehicle crash transformed a peaceful National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event into a mass-casualty scene outside the Tsawwassen Mills mall in Delta, British Columbia. A commercial pickup truck towing an equipment trailer plowed into a crowd of participants, killing respected Tsawwassen First Nation elders Virginia Splockton and wilapiya (Barb Joe) at the scene, while fatally injuring a third pedestrian, 64 year old Gwenyth Brigit Dwyn, who later passed away in the hospital.
Victoria's daughter, Stephanie, and her husband, Earl, were standing right beside her when the truck struck. They told APTN they witnessed the driver erratically reversing and revving the engine before deliberately accelerating straight into the crowd of marchers. Family representative Alec Dan summarized their stance plainly: "He wasn't in any type of medical emergency. He knew what he was doing."
The family expressed intense trauma and anger over the initial emergency response, alleging that arriving first responders bypassed their bleeding mother to care for the driver. "Some of the family members were with their mom that was laying on the ground injured and bleeding and crying for paramedics and police to come and help," Dan stated. "But they didn't right away.
Delta Police Department confirmed that the truck was involved in an "earlier collision" on the property prior to striking the crowd, legal experts and Indigenous advocates note that the "medical emergency" defense faces a high legal threshold. Under the Criminal Code of Canada, if prosecutors find evidence of erratic driving prior to a medical episode, or if a known pre-existing condition was ignored, the unnamed driver can be aggressively prosecuted under serious federal statutes: Dangerous Operation Causing Death (Section 320.13[3]) and Criminal Negligence Causing Death (Section 220).](https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/887901908_28922078340788163_221564789935698135_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=106&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0xJUFMuYmVzdF9pbWFnZV91cmxnZW4uQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ohc=9I_rXHDD23MQ7kNvwEO2EqX&_nc_oc=AdpO9pYn7Ugeiq_wepCpzXzazyPiF1_D_NAWZ0JHTKIXfgQELwt3-DPpHZknTNKjucE&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=LTdrxrxVRfkhEZLBJzP5Dg&_nc_tpa=Q5bMBQKdgqnKiR8zOMtNWrPeS6DatHtMOZ7ybVXppyPB3XQ5v6s_tR6gMKMA5DdJCnmWHogp6-Iemcp3&oh=00_AQTjADhrwS5OVikFFO-5jhVg-jkO_E5VYZfRKcFyzHRNng&oe=6AF67B90)
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People always ask if they could "speak to someone on the team" or "you guys do a lot" and
I always smile when I inform them that the team is just me, myself, and I
.I am grateful to have any type of platform
I do this for my people. to amplify Indigenous voices, decolonize myself, and to share culture
I also want to shine a light on decolonization
hopefully highlighting the need for everyone to decolonize back to their cultural traditional backgrounds
Not to become us
but to become stronger allies
who unplug from systems that oppress us all
and to become accomplices
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