By Karine Mayer, South America News Editor
In Rio drizzle a crowd chanting and holding banners walked from the home of a killed dancer to the streets of nearby Copacabana.
DG died of a single bullet wound Police are still unclear who shot Douglas Rafael da Silva Pereira, whose death violent sparked protests on Rio de Janeiro's streets on Tuesday night.
His body was found in a gap between two high walls at a nursery in the favela of Pavao-Pavaozinho.
Police detective Gilberto Ribeiro confirmed he had died of a single bullet wound.
But because the bullet has not been found it is not known who fired it during the early hours shoot-out between police and drug traffickers.
DG's friends and relatives walk through the streets DG, as the dancer was known, was a popular figure on a Sunday afternoon entertainment programme. He was also a dancer in a local popular funk group and dreamed of travelling.
His father, a handyman and painter, Paulo Cesar Pereira, who had been travelling, arrived at the wake in shock.
"It isn't the natural order of things," he said.
Fires were set in the hours after the dancer's death on Tuesday "I always thought I would die before him."
In tears he kept saying what a hard worker his son had always been and how he chased his dream of being a famous dancer.
It was with fireworks and applause that he was laid to rest in the nearby cemetery of Sao Joao Batista in Botafogo.
Maria da Fatima Silva, DG's mother, addressed the crowd of hundreds at the cemetery and thanked them.
After words of encouragement for justice for her son, they again took to the streets of Copacabana escorted by riot police.
Police fired tear gas at the crowd after tempers flared Shops had closed early, afraid of trouble.
As the demonstrators - many wearing T-shirts showing a picture of the dead dancer - became rowdier, police fired tear gas and by nightfall all had headed home.
Rio security secretary Jose Mariano Beltrame reiterated: "This crime will not go unpunished. As I told DG's mother, we will find out who is to blame."
Although 260 communities have been "pacified" by police in the run-up to the World Cup, Rio is still a divided city.
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