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Police have confirmed the identity of the man who was reportedly beaten, kidnapped and found lifeless by the side of Highway 13 in Laval Tuesday morning.

Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Joyce Kemp says Kellen Seow — a 34-year-old from Montreal — was killed in what appears to be a drug-related homicide.

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The SQ would not say if the victim is known to police, but court documents show that a 34-year-old Montrealer named Kellen Seow was sentenced in 2008 to 24 months probation after he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and uttering threats.

Police responded to a call at 11:30 a.m. about a man who appeared seriously wounded lying on the side of the northbound lanes of the highway, between Highways 440 and 640. When they arrived, the man was dead.

Roughly 20 minutes earlier, witnesses say, that same man was surrounded by four men, beaten and forced into a car parked outside a breakfast restaurant in nearby Ste-Dorothée. His body was found only three kilometres up the highway.