Friends and family gathered at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte on Saturday to remember Zach Myers.

His funeral was held this weekend, almost a week after the car accident which took the life of Myers.

Myers, who was a Lifelong Education student, died in a vehicle accident the morning of Sept. 4 in Ocean Isle Beach, NC.

According to Joey Beam, a close friend of Myers and also a Lifelong Education student, Myers was pronounced dead after his car ran off the road and into a ditch, which resulted in his ejection from the car.

The two friends had gone to the beach for Labor Day weekend and planned to return in time for classes Tuesday.

According to Beam, Myers had a beach house in which they were staying for the weekend.

Beam said he was asleep at the time Myers got into the fatal accident, around 8 a.m.

“I was asleep,” he said. “I don’t know why he was out at that time. I really don’t know what he was doing.”

A large number of friends attended Myers’ funeral on Saturday, Beam said.

“There was a pretty good turnout on Saturday‚” he said. “Our close group of guy friends were all there and a lot of friends from high school.”

Beam said he and the friends traveled to Charlotte this weekend for the funeral and were still in a state of shock.

“It’s like it hasn’t really happened,” he said. “We just came from the cemetery to visit him before we left, and it was like it wasn’t real.”

Beam and other friends had stopped by Zach’s parents’ home before they left Charlotte on Sunday.

“They are such a giving family,” he said. “They are all so generous. It’s so unfortunate to happen to such a good family.”

Beam and Myers had been friends for about 4 years and had been roommates in Charlotte before they both decided to attend NCSU.

As for Myers himself, Beam said he was “loyal to a fault.”

“He’d help anyone,” he said. “He helped his friends out all the time. He didn’t know a stranger.”

Addie Shapack, a sophomore in psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill, traveled with Beam to Charlotte for the funeral. She said Myers was like a brother to her.

“He was survived by a loving family and loyal friends,” Shapack said.

According to his Charlotte Observer obituary, Myers is “survived by Jim and Cherry Myers of Charlotte; brother Stuart Myers of Portland, Ore.; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and a host of friends from Charlotte and Ocean Isle Beach.”