The body of Charleric Ouellet, 28, who had been missing for nearly a week, was found in a body of water on a strawberry farm in Quebec City on Tuesday.
Posted at 8:16 p.m.
After several days of intensive searches, the Quebec City Police Service (SPVQ) found the body of the young man floating in a pond in the Ernest Fiset et Fils strawberry field, about fifteen kilometers from the center of Quebec.
It was a dog handler doing free searches in the Rang de l’Ange Nord sector, on the border of Quebec and Cap-Rouge, who made the macabre discovery around 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Forensic identification services and SPVQ investigators came to the scene. Emergency paramedic services issued a death certificate remotely, while firefighters participated in the nautical rescue operation, explains Marie-Pier Rivard, communications officer for the SPVQ.
The coroner later identified that it was indeed Charleric Ouellet, 28, who was last seen on June 29 at the Ernest Fiset farm. His parents subsequently alerted the police and an investigation by the SPVQ was continuing intensively.
A team from the forensic identification service as well as the major crimes unit was deployed after the discovery of the remains of Charleric Ouellet, supports Mr.me Rivard. “It’s too early, at first glance, to talk about hypotheses, but we’re not ruling anything out at this point,” she says.