Mother of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim remembers daughter | CBC News
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Ticaria Lampert, 12, is being remembered by her mother as a “blazing light in the darkness,” who was full of laughter, fire and sunshine.
“We called her Tiki,” said Sarah Lampert.
“She grew loud and proud on her own time, not a person to ever be pushed or rushed, but when it was her time, she was a storm.”
Ticaria was one of the eight victims who died on Feb. 10, during a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge B.C. Six of the victims were children.
A single-mother, Lampert said the loss of Ticaria has left an irreparable hole in their large family.
“We have learned to become a functioning cell together,” said Lampert.
“We now have to figure out how to live life without her, and there’s nothing and no one that can fill that gap. Our family is shattered.”
Lampert said her daughter was a bright and funny girl who had a strong spirit, loved her family fiercely, and was always there to protect others.
“She was feisty, she could turn up the heat to make a point,” said Lampert. “But always followed with her sunshine, her fundamental gift.”
‘She was a baby’
Ticaria was energetic, loved to talk, joke around and make others laugh, said Lampert. Her daughter felt a sense of accomplishment “when everybody’s tummy hurt.”
“She was a dork of all dorks. She had a Santa sack of every bad dad joke you could think of. Her large voice, telling the most off the wall jokes,” said Lampert.
A multi-faceted girl, Ticaria was “the glue” between her siblings, able to “roll with her older sisters,” or “be a Tarzan with her wild little siblings.”
“She was whoever and whatever someone needed. She was everything, especially to me,” said Lampert.
“It’s really hard to breathe right now.”
The mother of Ticaria Lampert spoke with media for the first time since a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., claimed the lives of her daughter and seven other victims. Sarah Lampert said she called 12-year-old Ticaria her ‘tiki torch’ and she has ‘always been a blazing light in the darkness.’
Ticaria was two months away from her 13th birthday when she died.
Lampert said she was a good student, self-disciplined, and “was content living in the moment.”
“She was in no hurry to grow up. She is forever my baby because that’s what she was. She was a baby,” said Lampert.
“This has been the hardest pill to swallow. I still am in disbelief. To accept that my daughter is gone is impossible.”
