Victim’s kin: Louna ‘not good friend’

LYNN – Paulette Piton visited her daughter, Greenland Etienne, Monday to find out when the woman Etienne had sheltered for almost a month would be moving out.Piton and other relatives sympathized with Louna Eveillard and the altercation with an abusive boyfriend that prompted her to ask if she could move into Etienne’s High Rock Street apartment with her four children.But they worried about their daughter’s and sister’s charity overwhelming Etienne’s ability to care for her own four children and work a night shift.”With eight children, it was hard on my sister and Louna was not working,” said Asline Paulin, Etienne’s older sister.Their frustration turned to shock and bitterness Wednesday when they learned that an hours-long confrontation in 99 High Rock between Eveillard and her estranged boyfriend, Rodlyn Petitbois, escalated into murder when Petitbois stabbed Etienne as she tried to call police.”My sister’s in the morgue right now for helping a friend. We wanted Louna far away,” Paulin said, expressing her anger over Eveillard’s decision to go with Petitbois along with her children when he fled the apartment.”She was not a good friend.”An easy smile and quick ability to “click” with people were defining characteristics of her younger sister’s personality, said Paulin. Etienne was born in rural Haiti and moved to Brooklyn to join her mother in 1994.She took a day job in a factory and attended English language classes at night.”She was a happy person. She liked having fun.”Mother and daughter moved to New England and, eventually, Lynn, in 2001. Etienne lived with relatives and relied on them to help juggle care of her three sons, Yvenson, 9, Yves, Jr., 8, and Jaclin, 7, and a daughter, Fendi, 4, with work.She got a job a year and a half ago in the New England Confectionary Company’s sanitation department working 10 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.”People talking about her today said she was pleasant,” said NECCO human resources director Ray Felice.Ford School Principal Claire Crane said three of the children attended the Highlands school for the last three or four years. Crane reached out to family members Thursday to begin coordinating services, including health and day care, for Etienne’s children.”The school community is reaching out to help the family. We’re really sad about this,” Crane said.Etienne’s family has made tentative plans through Solimine, Landergan and Richardson Funeral Homes to hold funeral services on Aug. 9 for Etienne at Eglise Baptiste Haitienne church on Essex Street with visiting hours on Aug. 8 at Solimine’s Ocean Street funeral home.Paulin said her sister will be buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.