Quincy Blackburn, a 26-year-old man, disappeared in connection with a trip to Trinidad and Tobago on February 5, 2013. Official Canadian missing-person records list him as missing from Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, although the last confirmed sighting of Quincy occurred earlier that day in Ontario, Canada. At approximately 3:00 p.m., his sister drove him to Toronto Pearson International Airport and watched him leave to begin his journey.
Quincy boarded his scheduled flight to Trinidad, and there was apparently nothing at that point to suggest that the trip would end with his family searching for answers. He was expected to return to Ontario on February 19, 2013, but when the time came for his return journey, Quincy did not board the scheduled flight. He never returned home, and his whereabouts after traveling to Trinidad remain unknown.
At the time he disappeared, Quincy was described as a Black male who stood approximately six feet tall and weighed about 231 pounds. He had short, wavy black hair and brown eyes. Investigators documented several distinguishing scars that could help identify him, including scars near his right and left eyes, a scar on his chin, and another scar on his head approximately two inches above his right eyebrow. Quincy was known by several other names or aliases, including Keron Quincy Blackburn-Walcott, Rob Robinson, and simply “Q.” Those aliases are particularly important because someone encountering him during his travels might have known him by a name other than Quincy Blackburn and therefore might never have realized that the person they met was later reported missing.
Quincy was also carrying and wearing several distinctive items when he began his trip. He was dressed in red-and-white Adidas track pants with a red-and-white track jacket and black-and-red Nike shoes. He wore square diamond earrings and had several pieces of luggage or personal belongings with him, including a gold backpack, black-and-grey luggage, and a motorcycle helmet. These details provide investigators with more than a description of Quincy himself; they also offer potential points of recognition for airport employees, airline passengers, transportation workers, hotel or lodging staff, acquaintances, or anyone in Trinidad who may have encountered him after his arrival. Because he successfully boarded the flight from Toronto, the central unanswered period in the case begins after his departure from Canada and continues through the date on which he should have returned. Publicly available information does not explain where Quincy stayed in Trinidad, whom he planned to meet, what transportation he used after arriving, or whether anyone has been able to establish his movements once he left the airport there.
The fact that Quincy had a return flight scheduled for February 19 makes his failure to appear for that flight especially significant. What happened during the approximately two weeks between his departure from Toronto and his expected return has never been publicly explained. There is no publicly released account identifying a final confirmed sighting of Quincy in Trinidad, nor is there publicly available information establishing when he was last heard from by telephone, text message, social media, or another form of communication. The available records also do not describe any confirmed discovery of his luggage, clothing, helmet, identification, or other belongings. That absence of publicly released detail leaves a painful gap for his loved ones: Quincy is known to have boarded a flight bound for Trinidad, but the public record provides no clear trail showing what happened to him afterward.
Quincy Blackburn remains listed in Canada’s national missing-person database, with the Toronto Police Service Missing Persons Unit identified as the investigating agency under police reference number 4710254.D13 and the national case reference 2014005999. Anyone with information about Quincy, including anyone who remembers seeing or interacting with a man matching his description in Trinidad during his trip, is asked to contact investigators. More than a decade after he left Toronto Pearson International Airport, the essential mystery remains unchanged: Quincy was a 26-year-old man who boarded a flight for Trinidad on February 5, 2013, intending to return to Ontario on February 19, but he never boarded that return flight and never came home. His case is ultimately the story of a routine international trip that became an enduring disappearance, with the most important unanswered question still being what happened to Quincy after he arrived in Trinidad and why he never returned to his family.Last Seen: Feb 5, 2013
