‘One of the sweetest little boys’: Family friend remembers child killed at Okanagan campground
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"We'll think about Kash forever. Truly, our sole focus is just wanting to help the family because nothing that we do or say will ever help this pain."
Ruveen Strogryn will be forever changed by the three-year-old boy whose life was cut short last weekend in a “freak accident” at an Okanagan Lake campground.
“He was one of the sweetest little boys I’ve ever met,” Strogryn said of Kash Bakker, who died July 31 at Okanagan Lake Park campground.
“I feel very lucky that I got to know him. He was so curious and playful and kind and sweet and inquisitive. I was so excited to spend more time with our daughter’s new friend. We had all these plans.”
Stogryn had been camping with the Bakkers for several days when tragedy struck.
The Bakker’s youngest boy Kash, 3, was killed when an old log rolled over him.
Stogryn said it was not a “tree fall” that killed the child, as previously described by officials, but, rather, a log that had been on the ground for quite some time.
“I don’t know the circumstances of what happened, how it happened… It’s all being investigated,” she said. “It’s honestly just a freak accident and that is my understanding at this point.”
Strogryn, a nurse, didn’t see the accident unfold.
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