Talib Ahmed

Talib Ahmed, an 18-year-old Black / African American male known to friends as "Kunda," was killed on November 11, 2022, in what police described as a gang-related shooting in Millcreek, Utah.

The confrontation began around 12:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven at 4051 S. State Street. A Lexus carrying Talib and four others pulled up to the gas pumps, followed shortly by a Chrysler 300. Two men from the Chrysler, Houssein Musse and Salman Farhan Ahmed, entered the convenience store, and Talib followed them inside. After a brief time, all three men exited and walked to the north side of the building, where an altercation escalated into gunfire.

Talib was shot at least four times, including twice in the head. His friends carried him back to the Lexus and drove him to the Intermountain Medical Center, where they left him before fleeing. Talib was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Salman Ahmed was also shot in the abdomen and was taken to a hospital by ambulance. When Unified Police officers arrived at the 7-Eleven, they encountered Musse and Salman Ahmed coming from behind a fence of a neighboring auto body shop with their hands up. The shop's owner later discovered blood and two guns hidden under a car on his lot.

Investigators made several arrests in the case. Houssein Musse, 18, and Salman Farhan Ahmed, 19, were each charged with murder, three counts of felony discharge of a firearm, and obstruction of justice. Talib's cousin, 23-year-old Joshua Harun Nena, who owned the Lexus, was charged with obstructing justice for falsely reporting his car stolen two days after the shooting, a claim he later retracted. Joshua's brother, Yessa Harun Nena, 20, was also charged with obstruction of justice and failing to stop for an officer after he allegedly pursued Musse and Salman Ahmed and fired a weapon. A fifth man, Miguel Jerald Yipa, was arrested as a material witness for failing to appear in court to testify.

According to news reports from April 2025, Salman Farhan Ahmed later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in connection with Talib Ahmed's death and served no prison time.