CHICAGO (WLS) -- Loved ones gather Saturday to remember a beloved boater whose body was pulled from DuSable Harbor last weekend.

Chicago police are investigating his death as a homicide .

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A picture of Plainfield man Nabil Abzal, affectionately known as Captain Bill, smiling is what greeted his former boating community who gathered, mourning his death. His friends say he was attacked.

"Unauthorized people, he was trying to escort them off and he never made it back to his boat," said Alan Brandt Malelo, vigil organizer and friend. "He would cock his hat and smile with his pursed lips."

The cheerful face memorialized in a picture is how his fellow boaters want to remember the man who loved the very harbor where police said he was

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