Gorham family is grief-stricken following accident that killed 3-year-old boy
William Tinkham was struck outside his home last week by a vehicle driven by a 13-year-old.
Monica Kennie courtesy photo
The 13-year-old who was behind the wheel of an SUV that killed a 3-year-old boy in Gorham last week had spent the afternoon with the boy’s family, but suddenly took control of the vehicle when they made a brief stop at home, the boy’s grandmother said.
William Tinkham was struck and killed on Tamarac Circle on April 14 shortly after he arrived home with his mother, his 8-year-old brother, and the 13-year-old neighbor whom his mother, Virginia Tinkham, had befriended, said Monica Kennie, 48, of Sebago, the boy’s maternal grandmother.
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Monica Kennie remembers her grandson s baby-toothed smile, the way his laugh only forced her to chuckle too, and how he would always take her phone to snap a selfie. The pain is so unimaginable, Kennie said nearly one week after she lost the little boy.
Struggling to get the words out, she recounted the phone call she received from her daughter last Wednesday telling her the 3-year-old had been run over by the family s car outside their home on Tamarack Circle in Gorham.