The smile that our family has lost forever'

Loved ones mourn baby boy killed during police chase

- RAJU MUDHAR AND JENNIFER PAGLIARO

Aditya Gokulnath, who was three months old, was killed in last week’s Highway 401 crash. His paternal grandparents, Manivannan Srinivasapillai, 60, and Mahalakshmi Ananthakrishnan, 55, who were visiting from India, were also killed.

A three-month-old boy who died in a horrendous crash that followed a wrong-way police chase down Highway 401 last week was remembered as “a light that could brighten up the darkest of the days.”

Family and loved ones gathered Wednesday amid photos of the child smiling in his car seat at a Markham funeral home.

Ajax residents Gokulnath Manivannan and Ashwitha Jawahar survived the crash on April 29 that killed their son, Aditya Vivaan, and Manivannan’s parents, Manivannan Srinivasapillai, 60, and Mahalakshmi Ananthakrishnan, 55, who were visiting from India. A service for the grandparents was held Monday.

The boy’s aunt, Brinda Deepak, said that while his life may have been tragically cut short, he is “woven into the fabric of our lives forever.”

“It feels like just yesterday that Gokul called us and said that his baby boy is here,” she told a few dozen mourners, according to a copy of the eulogy that was provided to media.