One year after 24-year-old Buddy Rhodes was struck and killed on the Coquihalla Highway, his family is pleading with people to come forward with information in his death.

Rhodes’ body was found off to the side of the highway near Exit 286 in Merritt, B.C., on Aug. 30, 2024.

“Buddy’s death has impacted all of us in different ways. It’s left a big hole in our lives; we are still working through the process,” his sister Alix Legouffe said in a video supplied by the BC Highway Patrol.

“The last year’s been really tough on all of us, going through all of the firsts, the first birthdays, the first Christmas, all of the family dinners, I’m getting married in a few weeks and having my brother not there, (I’m) still trying to figure out how we’re going to do that.”

Legouffe described Rhodes as

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