Every morning when Felicia Thompson wakes up she lingers at the door of her late son Daunte’s room. “I don’t even go in there, I just stand at the door,” she said. “Everything is exactly the same. Pair of pants laying on his bed. Some people say you should pack it up, but I am not ready to yet.”

It has been more than three months since 20-year-old Daunte Thompson-Bruce was struck and killed while riding his bicycle on Ninth Line near Bethesda Road, but his mother can’t shake the memory of police coming to her front door to inform her Daunte had died.

“Every day is painful. Every day not knowing … I feel like I am dying inside,” she said “It feels like someone has ripped a part of my heart out, and it just hurts so bad and some nights I’m just crying and crying and I can’t stop.”

Thompson can’t shake the feeling that there is a driver walking around out there who struck and killed her son. The coroner told the family that Daunte died from blunt force trauma and that if the driver had stopped at the scene and called 911, there was a chance of survival.

“I just want justice to come for him. I want whoever did this to come forward,” she said. “I just want to know why? I can’t believe someone would be so cold-hearted.”

York Regional Police investigators believe Thompson-Bruce was biking south on Ninth Line May 22 between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. when he was struck by a vehicle. Evidence collected also points to the car travelling southbound, said Det. Rich Gaudet of York Regional Police’s major vehicle collisions investigations unit. Police say the vehicle that struck the cyclist didn’t remain on the scene. Thompson-Bruce succumbed to his injuries at the scene. A spokesperson for YRP said there are no updates on the case.

Thompson said she doesn’t know why her son was biking at that time and is devastated that the accident was just five minutes from her house.

Her biggest fear is that the police case and the memories of her son will collect dust out of the consciousness of the public. “I just want people to remember him. I don’t want anyone to forget him,” she said.

Thompson remembers Daunte for his smile and kindness that was welcoming to everybody. Those traits were evident in stories friends shared with her following his death. Whether it was introducing himself to the new girl in the hall at Stouffville District Secondary School and just sitting down and talking to her or running the two kilometres round trip to McDonald’s to pick up a big order of food for friends.

Thompson said the family received amazing support from the community through things like GoFundMe, a meal train that included meals from complete strangers and people stopping to talk at the grocery store.

Daunte, the oldest of four children, would have been heading back to Seneca in the fall. Instead Thompson looks at his empty room every morning. “I’m furious. I’m angry,” she said.

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