Complete strangers grieved Saturday alongside family and friends of Darren Drake, the New Jersey man murdered on Halloween by an ISIS-obsessed madman.

“I felt compelled to come,” explained Ronnie Lazarus, 70, who never met Drake, 32, who was riding a Citibike along the Hudson River Park bike path in lower Manhattan when he and seven other people were killed in the city’s worst terror attack since 9/11.

“It was just such a horrible loss,” continued Lazarus, who like Drake, is from New Milford. “It’s going on all over the world, but just for me, it really hits my heart that it’s someone who lives in the same town I live in.”

A video screen set up inside the viewing room at Boulevard Funeral Home in New Milford showed pictures of Drake as a carefree boy — floating in an inner tube in one, wearing a snowsuit in another , and sporting bright red pants as he posed sweetly with his parents, Barbra and Jimmy.

“He had a lot of friends, his father has a lot of friends, and we’re a town that if something like this happens, we rally. That’s New Milford,” said longtime family friend John Bigger, 58. “His father is holding up right now, because everyone is here. Who knows what will happen on Monday?”

A flower arrangement made to look like an American flag was set up behind his mahogany casket, one of the dozens of bouquets, many with Irish decorations — and one with a green and white New York Jets theme. In his casket, the longtime Jets fan proudly wore a Gang Green cap.

“He was the sweetest, one of the kindest guys I knew,” said Gregory Booker, a family friend, who said the very close family lost Barbra’s mother about two months ago.

“I’m at a loss for words… It just doesn’t make any sense.”

“He was an amazing guy,” added friend, Audrey Fagnano, 36, who had plans to go bike riding with Drake last week. “He always had a smile, and if you were having a bad day, he would always tell you something good about you.”

Five of the victims in Tuesday’s rampage were longtime friends from Argentina, visiting the U.S. together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation. Another was from Belgium, a mother of two young children. A young New Yorker, Nicholas Cleves, also was killed.

The bodies of the Argentine victims were identified by family members Friday and expected to return to Argentina on Sunday.

Twelve people were hospitalized following the attack, including Marion Van Reeth, 54, a Belgian mother who biked for charities all over the world. Both of her legs were amputated after they were severely mangled. Her husband and 16-year-old-son both suffered neck and head injuries.

Uzbekistan-native Sayfullo Saipov, 29, faces multiple terrorism-related counts in the attack and is being held without bail.