Emmanuel Boachie, a young Brampton man and talented graphic arts student, was found dead May 11, five months after he disappeared, his family has announced.

His family confirmed on the Facebook page Bring Emmanuel Boachie Home that the body pulled from Professor’s Lake May 11 is Boachie, who went missing Dec. 7.

Police say they are still awaiting test results before they will confirm it was Boachie that was found, but said at the time foul play is not suspected.

Boachie, 20, was last seen leaving his warehouse job at noon on Dec. 7 in the area of Chrysler Drive and Queen Street East.

For five months, his family has been worried sick about him and they had made several public appeals asking for anyone who knew anything about his disappearance to speak up.

“We just want him to come home, that’s my prayer,” his foster mom, Sherry Walton Crawley, said recently.

She was hopeful he was safe somewhere, but those hopes were dashed Friday when a passerby spotted his body floating in Professor’s Lake.

The Ghanaian Association of Guelph, where his birth mother lives, had just organized a flyer distribution May 5 at Brampton’s Southgate Plaza on Balmoral Drive, near Boachie’s apartment. Family and friends, including Crawley and Boachie’s birth mother Juliana, his sister and brother, distributed flyers with his photograph and description.

They were hoping to stir memories and drum up some leads.