![]() She has four older siblings: two brothers, Michael Jr, Christopher, and his sister Izabella. Tylo grew up in Henderson, and she is the niece of Elizabeth Hunter, a former television producer. Tylo was born to Hunter Tylo and Michael Morehart in Nevada. She was fired from the role due to her affair with Michael Tylo. The feeling was an antagonist as Marina Toscano on Days of Our Lives. Her television debut was on All My Children in 1985 as the character of Dr. ![]() Tylo subsequently became well known after playing regular roles in US daytime soap operas. Hunter is known for her role as Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful. “We believe that something good is going to come out of this even though it’s a tragedy.Katya Ariel Tylo is the daughter of Hunter Tylo and Michael Tylo. Something like ‘Xavier’s Way,’ just to remember him,” Scott said. “I hope they name it after him, that little stretch. Scott said he hopes his grandson’s death can help pave the way for better safety measures, especially in the area where the accident happened. All of these people are here in sympathy and so generously and this will help us recover.” “This process is going to help us heal our own hearts. “These people are just so giving and generous,” she said. She said she didn’t even know the group before discovering the event they were organizing for her nephew on Facebook. “If Xavier’s death has any lasting implications, hopefully it’s that the city will take cycling and cyclists more seriously.”īrenda Morgan said she was grateful to the many people across the city who have offered support, including those of Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists. “It takes a death of a cyclist for the city to actually react and do something,” he said. Schwartz said the city needs to be proactive in the future to prevent similar tragedies. Others blocked a lane of traffic for a few minutes as they held a sign which read “a cyclist was killed here last week,” as a way of reminding drivers to slow down. The barriers will eventually be replaced by 366 metres of permanent fencing, separating trail users and motorists, the city also announced, while new signs and pavement markings will be added for cyclists and drivers.įollowing a minute of silence following the memorial ride, cyclists lined the temporary barrier to form a human chain separating the road from the bike trail. where Xavier was struck from the adjacent bike trail. It’s beyond words.”Ĭity crews installed temporary barriers on Friday to divide the section of Lake Shore Blvd. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen the cycling community more,” he paused, “gutted, in terms of feeling a deep, deep sense of sadness. Schwartz said it’s a tragedy anytime a cyclist is killed, but even more so in this instance because Xavier was just a child. “It’s also a reminder the cyclist was there and hopefully a reminder for people to be more careful,” said Joey Schwartz, a member of the group who helped organize the ride. Saturday’s ride was organized by Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists, a Toronto group which places ghost bikes at accident sites after each cycling death in the city to remember fallen cyclists. He was “a happy, happy little kid,” Scott added. “It’s an extraordinary thing that somebody so pure and beautiful is gone.” “He’d seen your face once and he’d say ‘hi friend!’ He just loved everybody and everybody loved him,” she said. ![]() Xavier was “so full of life and incredibly loving and friendly,” said Brenda. to the site of the crash as a tribute to Xavier, placing a white-coated “ghost bike” there in his memory. On Saturday morning, hundreds of cyclists biked from Bloor St. The accident took place just outside the Royal Canadian Legion near Jameson Ave. and then he fell and he gave me that look that ‘I’m OK,’ and then the car hit him.” “I was just behind him on a bike and I’m sure the wind hit him because he was so experienced. “He didn’t see it coming, it just was so instant,” Scott said. That’s why it was so unusual to Scott when his grandson crashed his bike on the Martin Goodman Trail May 24, causing him to fall onto Lake Shore Blvd. “We went just about everywhere.”īrenda Morgan, Xavier’s great-aunt, said he was “a really, really good rider” and that he had probably biked “hundreds of kilometres.” “He’d been riding a bike since he was 3,” said Morgan, who adopted Xavier and raised him from birth with his wife. Together with his grandfather, Scott Morgan, he had pedaled all across the city and the two planned on seeing more. At 5 years old, Xavier Morgan was already an avid cyclist.
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