Friends of Bath teenager Sammuel Amin have gathered at a city church to share their grief following the death of the 18 year old.
Sammuel's body was found in the River Avon on Tuesday, four days after going missing following a night out in Bath.
More than 200 people attended the impromptu vigil at St Michael's and All Angels Church in Twerton on Tuesday night.
Friends and family members lit candles and said prays and a roll of paper, more than ten metres long, was filled with messages from people trying to express what Sammuel meant to them and how he will be missed.
One message said: "Sam, you are incredible and no one will ever forget that. You'll be missed by so many, but we will never forget you. Eternal love. Tig x x x"
Another friend wrote: "A hero among peers. Charming, funny and infinitely strong minded. I love you mate, forever remembered. Benj."
Sammuel, along with his parents Aster and Amin, and his three older sisters Sana, Annie and Ephrath, had been members of the church since the family moved to Bath from Pakistan more than ten years ago.
Rev Richard Wilson, the rector at St Michael's and All Angels Church, had known Sammuel for nine years.
"The tragedy of it all was Sam was a beautiful, handsome, intelligent, effortlessly cool young man. He was always smiling. He was one of those kids that could talk to adults, people older than him - he was a charmer. There wasn't one person who didn't like him. He made it easy to love him and everyone did."
Mr Wilson said the Amin family were being supported by the congregation and the wider Pakistani community as they come to terms with what has happened to their youngest child.
He said: "It's one of those things I'd like the city to think of. It could have been any of our sons. In fact they are our sons - the six that have died. As a city we are grieving something not just as a community or as a family.
"We've all had those moments when we've stayed up waiting to hear the key in the door or waiting for that text - but this family are living any parents' worst nightmare.
"I, with many others, have been protecting them in recent days from the wider reaction to the news. But where he fell there was no fencing and questions will need to be asked in the coming weeks - but for now it is the raw emotion of what has happened that is consuming people's thoughts. The story here is simple - this family have lost a son."
