Funeral to be held Thursday for boy, 4, killed in Quebec daycare crash

A funeral will take place Thursday for one of the two children killed when a bus crashed into a daycare in Laval, Que. on Wednesday.

An online obituary identified four-year-old Jacob Gauthier and officials at Ste-Rose-de-Lima church confirmed his funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. next week.

The second young victim has not been publicly identified.

Two children died and six others were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following the alleged bus attack at the Garderie Educative Ste-Rose.

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The funeral home notice says Jacob is survived by his mother, father, sister as well as grandparents and other extended family.

Montreal’s Sainte-Justine children’s hospital said Thursday that two of the injured children had been released from its care, and on Friday it had no update on the other two children still hospitalized there.

Pierre Ny St-Amand, a 51-year-old driver with the Laval transit corporation, was arrested at the scene and later charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as seven other charges, including attempted murder and aggravated assault. His case returns to court next Friday.

Police have not identified a motive for Wednesday’s crash.

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