Hygin Veilleux, 73, drove for Taxi du Pont in Saint-Georges, Québec. He was married with one grown son and two granddaughters. At about 9:15 p.m. on Friday, November 7, 2014, he was parked on the St. Charles taxi stand on Boulevard Lacroix when he was dispatched to pick up a passenger at the corner of 2nd Avenue and 123rd Street. The call came from a nearby payphone. At about 9:40 on Saturday morning a friend and fellow taxi driver, François Gilbert, saw Mr. Veilleux's white 2014 Kia Optima parked at the same street corner. When he looked inside he found Mr. Veilleux dead in the passenger seat, sitting with his head bent forward. He had been stabbed to death. The record of the GPS transmitter in Mr. Veilleux's cab revealed that he left for Beauceville via route 173 about 9:15 p.m. At Notre-Dame-des-Pins the cab turned onto 20th Street, heading toward Saint-Simon-les-Mines and finally entered Beauceville by Fraser Road. The cab wandered around several residential streets in Beauceville before heading back to St. Georges, arriving sometime around 10:15 p.m. By Sunday evening the Sûreté du Québec had a 31-year-old resident of Saint-Georges in custody. He lived in an apartment building located near the phone booth and the pickup point. According to family and friends, the man had a history of mental problems and drug addiction. The caretaker of his apartment block said that about two weeks earlier the man attempted suicide by taking an overdose of pills. The caretaker helped the man's mother get him downstairs to a waiting ambulance. While in custody the suspect made another suicide attempt and was afterward confined to a padded cell. The preliminary inquest was delayed until June 20, 2016 as the court awaited expert opinion on whether or not the suspect was fit to stand trial. During the wait the suspect's defence passed through the hands of five different lawyers.

Hygin Veilleux. (Source: Radio Canada, November 17, 2014.) Meanwhile Mr. Veilleux's funeral took place in Saint-Georges on November 17, 2014. Over 200 people attended and the funeral cortege included about 30 taxis from Saint-Georges, Sherbrooke, Victoriaville, Rimouski, Sept-Îles, Val-d'Or, Sainte-Foy, Lévis, Beauport and Charlesbourg. Most of the taxis flew black ribbons from their radio antennas.