CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — After a tragic stabbing killed a Champaign man — one of his best friends is working on celebrating his life through skating.

Nathan Gudeman was killed in his home in March. Now, 22-year-old Isaac Garcia is organizing the skate-against-violence in his honor. It’ll take place May 2 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Spalding Park in Champaign.

Garcia said people can come and ride in any way they want — and there will be a candlelight vigil as well. He said this will help highlight a big part of Gudeman’s life.

“Nathan was a really good skater,” Garcia said. “He’s been skating for as long as I’ve known him, he’s been skating. He was always out and about skating, and [it] was just one of his favorite [hobbies] and he was really good at it. But we’ve just been trying to go around and spreading the word for it, and I think it’ll help, at least the people who know him well, to just have the event for skating because he was just really close to it. And I feel like he would have really appreciated it as well.”

There is also an event coming up for the for the other victim who survived the attack. The Texas Roadhouse on Country Fair Drive in Champaign will donate 10% of purchases on April 30 to Katy’s road to recovery.