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Saturday’s shooting comes nearly one year after the shooting death of the son of Lumumba Sayers Sr.
ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — A man who spent years of his life working to combat gun violence in Colorado shot a 28-year-old man in the head Saturday, according to Commerce City Police, as attendees of a child’s birthday party watched in horror.
The fatal shooting came nearly a year after the death of the suspected shooter’s son.
Lumumba Sayers, 46, remains in the Adams County Detention Facility facing first-degree murder and felony menacing charges stemming from the Saturday shooting at Commerce City’s Pioneer Park at Holly Street and East 60th Avenue. Sayers was an MMA fighter and founded Aurora’s Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts Foundation.
Sayers’ son, Lumumba Sayers Jr., was shot and killed August 19, 2023, at 28th and Welton streets.
Saturday’s shooting happened during a pool party for a child, according to an arrest affidavit. Court documents say witnesses saw Sayers Sr. “walk up and shoot the victim in the head at close range.”
The court documents go on to suggest what it calls “a possible motive.”
“Witnesses had stated the [shooter’s son] had been murdered about a year ago by a friend of the deceased… and this murder was probably in retaliation or revenge,” the documents say.
In 2021, 9NEWS profiled Sayers Sr. and the Aurora gym he said he created to make a safe space for kids. He then told reporter Kelly Reinke, “we have just got to get these kids who are out here making bad decisions to make better decisions and do different stuff with their life.”
“If you get those two parties together and they are able to talk about the situation, then we are able to stop a lot of the violence,” he added.
Court documents identify the man who was killed as Malcolm Watson.
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