The Ithaca College student who was stabbed to death upstate in late-August was laid to rest Saturday. As NY1's Erin Clarke tells us, family and friends are mourning the death of a young man who many called a bright star.

A young man with an electric smile and a joy for life — that's how 19-year-old Anthony Nazaire was described at his funeral Saturday.

"Anthony was always happy," one of his friends said.

August 28, the Ithaca College sophomore was stabbed to death while attending a party at nearby Cornell University, where a fight broke out.

"When he passed away, it was devastating to all of us," another friend said.

"I was shocked. I didn't believe it at all," said another.

During Nazaire's wake Friday, his family made a desperate plea, as police are still looking for a suspect.

"Whoever did this, I'm begging you: turn yourself in," said Anthony's father, Reginald Nazaire. "Give his mother and I closure. Give his family and friends closure, because we need it."

"If you see something, don't be afraid to say something, and if you hear something — I know you hear something — please make the phone call," said Jacques Dorsainvil, Anthony's godfather.

Saturday morning, as they prepared to lay Nazaire's body to rest, the young man's friends showed their support and honored him by wearing t-shirts splashed with his pictures.

They say that although Nazaire was a peer, he encouraged them to be better.

"He wanna see everybody win, everybody do good and that's just how he was," one of his friends said.

"He helped me study for global, because that was my last regents to take. He was like, 'There's no such thing as failing,'" another said. "He was like, 'You always gotta think positive. The goal is always to succeed.'"

And they've created a hashtag, #Everything4Ant, as a reminder of what Nazaire would have wanted.

"This hashtag saying Anthony forever — meaning that everything is for Anthony and everything we do is for him," said a friend who wore the hashtag on a shirt. "So we're going to make him proud when we graduate from college, when we become successful in life."

Despite a multi-agency investigation, no arrests have been made in Nazaire's death. His friends and family are hopeful that will soon change.