Autopsies will be conducted on the father and daughter whose bodies were found Sunday afternoon in a Brossard hotel.
A housekeeper walked into a room of the Best Western Hotel National on Taschereau Blvd. just before 1 p.m. and discovered the body of 46-year-old Albert Pelchat.
"When she opened the door, she found a man lying down on the floor. She closed the door and called 911," said Longueuil police Const. Gaetan Durocher.
When police arrived on the scene, they found the body of Pelchat's six-year-old daughter, Daphnee, in the bed.
According to Durocher, the deaths are considered suspicious even though there are no obvious traces of violence on the bodies.
"The autopsy will reveal if they have some traces of violence or not," said Durocher.
Family drama
Pelchat lived in St. Henri with his parents, while Daphnee lived with her mother on the South Shore, in St. Hubert.
Pelchat's mother told CTV Montreal that he split up with Daphnee's mother when the little girl was just two-months-old.
Family members also said Child Protection Services had been involved with the family, and that Pelchat had been ordered to take an anger management course.
But Pelchat saw his daughter every other weekend, and frequently took her to the Best Western so she could go swimming at the hotel pool.
Neighbours who knew Pelchat remember him as a pleasant man and a loving father.
"He seemed like he loved his daughter very, very much. He was with her all the time," said Natasha Canuel.
Sylvie Delorme, another neighbour, also spoke highly of Pelchat.
"I have nothing bad to say about Mr. Pelchat. He was a good father," Delorme said.
