More than 100 people attended a candlelight memorial on the steps of the Manitoba legislature for Tim McLean, the 22-year-old who was brutally killed and then beheaded on a bus last week.

McLean's older sister and younger brother spoke to CTV News on Sunday about their slain brother, remembering him as a "gentle soul."

"He's never been in a fight and would never hurt anybody ever," his sister Amanda Corrigan said.

"He didn't think about himself at all," his brother Kendall Dedelley remembered. "He'd only have one article of clothing on him and he'd give it to you if you asked."

Family and friends of McLean say that they want people to remember the young man for the way he lived, not the horrific way he died.

"I just want people to remember him as a good guy . . . he lived life to the fullest," Dedelley said. "He had a huge heart, it was so heavy."

"I've never seen him upset," Corrigan added, saying her brother was always laughing and happy. "He shined very bright in our family."

"He's still there," Dedelley responded quietly.

Friends and family have erected a memorial along the Trans-Canada Highway where he died.

Mclean, who worked the last three summers touring with a carnival in western Canada, was travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg last Wednesday on a Greyhound bus.

Sometime after 8 p.m. local time near Portage la Prairie, a stranger with a large knife attacked him without warning or provocation after moving to the seat beside McLean. Other bus passengers fled the vehicle and locked his attacker inside. Witnesses say the attacker then beheaded McLean.

Vince Weiguang Li, 40, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with McLean's death. He is expected to return to court in Portage la Prairie on Tuesday.

He is in custody and on suicide watch.