A family mourns DeAndre Matthews, a young gay man found burned and fatally shot on a train track in Brooklyn.

Chants of “Justice for Deandre” for a young gay man from Brooklyn who was burned and fatally shot on a remote stretch of Flatbush freight railroad were mourned by hundreds of relatives and friends on Friday.

DeAndre Matthews, 19, a college student who aspired to be a social worker, was found dead by police Feb. 6 with a gunshot wound to the head after failing to return home from work at a car wash, his family reported. missing.

Lovers filled the Caribbean Funeral Home in Flatlands and lined up to go to the closed gray coffin where his body lies.

Near the coffin were flower arrangements that described his role in their lives: DRE was written on one, BRO and SON on the other. A life-size cardboard cutout showed Matthews wearing a white T-shirt with “Proud” written on a rainbow background.

“Dre was the epitome of a dream hunter. If you ever had the pleasure of talking to him, then you knew he was always planning for his future,” reads Tamika Whitson, a family friend, from the obituary as the photos play back as a montage on screens — Matthews as a child with his sister, cool photo, with friends, in the subway, in infancy with mom.

His body was seen on the railroad tracks at Flatbush Avenue and Avenue H by a passing train crew last week. He was shot in the head and his body was set on fire.

His mother, Danielle Matthews, reported him missing after he borrowed her car and didn’t return home the night before. She used an electronic tracking device to locate her charred Jeep Cherokee on Troy Avenue in Crown Heights, miles from the body. The police made no arrests and no suspects were announced.

“Knowing Dre meant knowing he was a free spirit. He was loving and kind. Dre always knew the right words to say,” Whitson said. “Dre knew he was his mother’s prince and that was another name he liked, Prince Dre.”

Matthews left his job at a buggy service center, a car wash near his home in Crown Heights, the day he disappeared and never returned, company owner Jeremy Moskowitz said.

Although Matthews only started working there in January, Moskowitz said, he was well liked by his colleagues.

According to his family, the young man attended classes at Broome Community College in the hope of one day becoming a social worker.

“I am so grateful for the selfless and forgiving person that you were. You taught me to always see both sides of a situation and not hold a grudge,” his sister Dajaneya Gillespie said during the memorial service. “I remember how, no matter how sweet and harmless you seemed, you always made me feel safe.”

Although the police have not established a motive for the case, the family believes that he was killed because he was gay.

“This shouldn’t have happened. Not Deandre. Not someone who is filled with so much love and so many people who love him back. But the enemy did it. This enemy has a four-letter name. Its name is hate,” said Pastor Louis Straker Jr.

“That’s why our brother was attacked, because he showed the power of love,” the pastor said.

Straker said that Danielle Matthews told him that she wanted to get into activism as a result of her son’s murder.

“There should be righteous anger in this room today. And righteous anger that does not look at sin or retribution, but righteous anger that produces a righteous response.”

“Justice for DeAndre!” Straker said.

“Justice for DeAndre!” the attendants answered.