JOHN JANTAK
The 1019 Report

Liza Baboolal wants her brother to be remembered for how he was always willing to help people.

The St. Lazare resident is mourning the loss of her 37-year-old brother, Kevin Baboolal, whose body was found Oct. 20 in a wooded area in the Chaline Valley area of St. Lazare, five months after he went missing.

“I want him to be remembered as a generous and helpful person,” Liza Baboolal said in an interview with The 1019 Report. “He would just drop everything and be there for me and my family. This is what I’ll miss the most about him. He would have given the shirt off his back.”

Kevin’s disappearance on May 18 triggered an intense search by the Sûreté du Québec. The SQ set up a command post in front of St. Lazare town hall and performed intense ground searches, with officers taking to a variety of wooded areas on all-terrain vehicles, while helicopters searched from the sky without any success. Residents also volunteered to take part in the effort in the days and weeks following the initial report of his disappearance.

According to SQ spokesperson Valerie Beauchamp, Baboolal’s body was finally found by a hiker, who alerted police. His bicycle, equipped with a trailer, which he had reportedly left his home with the day he went missing, were found nearby.

There were no signs of a crime at the scene where the body was found, Beauchamp said.

“Please understand that our hearts are torn,” Liza Baboolal wrote in a Facebook post last week. “We feel completely devastated that he is no longer by our side.”

The family has not finalized funeral arrangements.