"You couldn't help but love her," Aaliyah Martin's aunt tells PEOPLE Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016. Courtesy of the Martin family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “She was a friend to everybody,” the young woman's aunt tells PEOPLE Aaliyah Martin, an 18-year-old wrestler, had been at college ...

Aaliyah Martin, an 18-year-old wrestler, had been at college in Iowa for just over three weeks when she died in a two-vehicle collision that also took her friend’s life. In her final moments, the teen ...

Aaliyah's story had barely begun before it was out of her hands. But on what would have been her 47th birthday Jan. 16 if she hadn't died in a plane crash at the age of 22, there's still so much to ...