 Zachariah Aiden grew up in Lewiston and was a longtime family friend of Sahal Muridi. Aiden says the two had been especially close since middle school. They would hang out, play basketball. For a while, they worked the same shift at Taco Bell. Aiden says Muridi had a quiet and uplifting presence and pushed his peers to dream bigger. He always made me want to be, like, doing the best at what I'm doing every time. Little is known about what actually happened leading up to Muridi's death.