Family, friends and hundreds of members of a community that adopted 6-year-old Christopher Barrios during a weeklong search crowded into a tiny chapel Thursday afternoon for the boy's funeral.

A small casket, surrounded by toys and a Spiderman action figure, was at the center of the Edo Miller Funeral Home chapel which overflowed with mourners. Some of them never met the boy, many had volunteered in the search effort and others were just touched by the horror of his death.

"As mayor and as a citizen, we all have to be here. We all show support for this young man and his family. Things like this unfortunately happen. It's never happened in this community before, and it has had a really galvanizing effect on the community," said Brunswick Mayor Bryan Thompson.

Christopher's body was found in a trash bag about 3 miles from his home nearly one week after he disappeared from a playground near his father's home.

"The last preacher that spoke said that he was in a better place," mourner Louis Hill said through tears after the service.

The emotions were shared by Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering, who headed the search effort and the investigation. Four people are now charged in connection with the boy's death.

"It's tough," Doeing said. "How can you not get a little bit emotional and not get attached to a 6-year-old child?"

The Barrios family thanked everyone -- some of them total strangers -- who cared enough to attend both Thursday's funeral and Wednesday's viewing.

"I'm just going to hang on tight to my family," said Christopher's grandmother, Sue Rodriguez.

She said the day of the funeral was the hardest because her grandson was going to be put in the ground.

On Wednesday, the Glynn County grand jury returned a 13-count indictment against four people, charging a convicted sex offender and his two parents with murder, kidnapping and the molestation of Christopher Barrios.

District Attorney Stephen Kelley said he will seek the death penalty against 32-year-old George David Edenfield, who has a prior child molestation conviction from 1997, and his parents, David and Peggy Edenfield.

"This is one of the most horrific crimes that I have seen in 21 years of prosecutions," Kelley said.

Donald Dale was indicted on charges of concealing a death and tampering with evidence. Kelley said Dale did not become involved until after Christopher had been killed.

Christopher was missing for a week before police found his body about three miles from his trailer park home outside Brunswick. The Edenfields lived in a mobile home across the street from the boy's grandmother.

"It makes me sick, and it makes me so angry," said Christopher's grandmother on Wednesday. "All four of them need to be charged with murder, and they don't need to be kept alive long. They killed our baby. They don't even need to be alive now."

The indictment does not say which of the three is accused of causing the boy's death.

"They deserve the worst, for them to torture my son like that, every last one of them," said Mike Barrios, the slain boy's father.

Glynn County police arrested the Edenfields four days after Christopher vanished while playing alone outside.

Doering said all three suspects confessed to playing roles in the boy's abduction.