13th Tacoma Homicide of 2024: Aidan Schmidt
In the days leading up to 21-year-old Aidan Schmidt’s murder, he got his hands on a gun because he knew that one particular local man would try to kill him on sight. The week before Aidan and that man had gotten into a physical fight that Aidan won.
Just after 1:20am in the morning on July 20, 2024 Aidan was riding his motorcycle on the the Scott Pierson Trail near the 1900 block of South Mullen Street behind Cheney Stadium when he was shot multiple times in the chest and once in the arm. First responders attempted to revive Aidan, but he died on the scene becoming Tacoma’s thirteenth Tacoma homicide.
Police would arrest the 37-year-old man believed responsible for his death in a tent in October of 2024. He has been charged with Aidan’s murder.
At just twenty-one years old we barely had a chance to know who Aidan was or might become. His parents and his sister are robbed of his presence in their lives. It’s difficult to overstate how senseless these homicides are.
I can’t tell you much about Aidan’s life, but his friends and family can. That’s why I reserve the comment section for exactly that purpose. If you knew Aidan and want to share thoughts or memories of him, please don’t hesitate to click the button below.
- Jack Cameron