Nehemiah was almost a year sober.
The young man known to friends as Nemo had come to Art Dahlen’s Battlefield Addiction sober-living home in Kent with legal troubles and a desire to get clean. He stayed. He worked the program. He was building something.
On the morning of May 28, Dahlen took a crew from Battlefield out to a client’s property to do yard work. It’s one of the ways the program raises money. Nemo asked to stay behind, and Dahlen trusted him enough to leave his car keys with him…