MONTREAL - About 100 friends and family members gathered at Sir George Etienne Cartier Park in St. Henri Saturday afternoon to pay their respects to Matt "Dutch" Garner.
Some of Garner's closest friends handed out t-shirts for the memorial, while other friends consoled members of the Garner family.
At 4:20 p.m., people started lighting candles in memory of the local hip-hop producer.
Garner, 29, was one of two victims in a brutal double murder in his St. Henri condo last Friday. Witnesses say they saw three men leaving the apartment and shortly after, one man burst out of the apartment covered in flames.
Einick Gitelman, 28, was pronounced dead in hospital. Garner's body was found inside the apartment.
So far no arrests have been made in the crime.
Liz Pieries of McGill's CKUT Radio remembered Garner as a kind man.
"I remember him asking if I would be interested in playing some of the music - he'd given me some - and I said, ‘Maybe, maybe.' He was really, really laidback. He wasn't anybody who would cause any harm," she said.
The vigil was overseen by a heavy police presence.
Police continue to say they believe the murders are connected to a drug deal.
