Friends and family of Chris Lane, the Australian baseballer shot dead while out jogging in the United States, have gathered in Melbourne to celebrate his life.
Lane's mother Donna gently placed the shawl her son wore at his baptism on his coffin in St Therese's Catholic church in Essendon.
Lane's three sisters added some of his favourite t-shirts and his American girlfriend Sarah Harper draped a blue flag with Oklahoma written across it.
The priest said he had never seen a church so full.
He told mourners to try to look past the circumstances of Lane's death and focus on the values he lived by: dignity, friendship and respect.
Lane, 22, was shot in the back in a drive-by shooting while jogging on a street on August 16 in the small town of Duncan, Oklahoma.
He was on a baseball scholarship at East Central University and was reportedly two weeks away from celebrating his 23rd birthday.
He had only been back in the US two days following a trip to Australia with Ms Harper.
related to the killing.
According to police, one of the teenagers said he and the other boys saw Lane jogging and decided he would be their target.
He said they had decided to kill someone "for the fun of it".
A public memorial service for Lane was held in Melbourne earlier this week.
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