The next court appearance for an accused impaired driver from a car crash that left three children and their grandfather dead will be on Nov. 12.

Marco Muzzo, 29, was supposed to have a bail hearing on Monday in Newmarket court, but his lawyer, Brian Greenspan, requested that his next appearance be by video on Nov. 12, saying that Muzzo’s legal team is still reviewing disclosure. It’s unclear when a bail hearing will take place.

Muzzo faces a number of charges, including impaired driving causing death, following a car crash on Sept. 27 in Vaughan that claimed the lives of 9-year-old Daniel Neville-Lake, his brother, Harrison, 5, sister Milly, 2, and their grandfather, 65-year-old Gary Neville. The children’s grandmother and great-grandmother were also injured in the collision.

Muzzo, who was supposed to be married on Saturday, has been in custody since the crash.

He appeared briefly in court Monday in a navy blue suit and light blue shirt, with no tie. Sitting in the prisoner’s box, he mostly looked at the floor during the brief proceeding. The children’s parents, Edward Lake and Jennifer Neville-Lake, sat in the front row.

The couple had not attended Muzzo’s two previous court appearances. Muzzo’s mother, Dawn, and fiancee, Taryn Hampton, who had been at his last appearances accompanied by private security, were absent on Monday.

“I wanted to come and I wanted to see the man, allegedly the reason why we don’t have children anymore,” Neville-Lake told reporters afterward, adding she believes it’s her “duty” to come to as many Muzzo court appearances as possible.

She said she and her husband have “full confidence in the judicial system,” but did not express an opinion on whether she wants Muzzo to plead guilty.

“No matter what happens, we have no family left,” she said.

Neville-Lake said Nov. 12 would have been her parents’ wedding anniversary, and that despite it also being Muzzo’s next appearance, “it will be a special day regardless.”

She said that Monday was not the first time she’s seen Muzzo. Neville-Lake said she recalled that he bought an apple at a grocery store last year from her son Daniel, a first-year Cub, and that she had seen him on several other occasions in the community.

In a Facebook post written on Saturday, the day the children were buried, Neville-Lake wrote: “Today is the day we bury my family. Ed’s and my hopes for the future, our legacy and our dreams will be committed to the ground for eternity along with my father who was the ‘patriarch’ of my family. Ed and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary looking at the caskets full of our broken and stolen dreams.”

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Neville-Lake said Monday that she has received over 9,000 messages on Facebook. “I’m trying to answer each and every one,” she said, speaking as members of the community who had come out to support the family gathered nearby with photos of the Neville-Lake children.

She has also urged people online to write and call their local government representatives, urging for stiffer sentences for drunk driving.