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The 28-year-old victim was fatally shot at a child’s birthday party over the weekend in Commerce City.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Prosecutors formally charged a local anti-gun violence advocate with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a man at a child’s birthday party in Commerce City over the weekend.
Lumumba Sayers, 46, is also charged with two counts of menacing, according to the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
Sayers is accused of shooting a 28-year-old man in the head on Saturday in the parking lot of Paradice Island in Commerce City. Court documents identify the man killed as Malcolm Watson
Sayers was an MMA fighter and founded Aurora’s Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts Foundation. His son Lumumba Sayers Jr., was shot and killed on Aug. 19, 2023, at 28th and Welton streets in Denver.
According to an arrest affidavit from Commerce City Police, witnesses saw Sayers Sr. “walk up and shoot the victim in the head at close range.”
The affidavit goes on to suggest “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 document says.
9NEWS spoke to Watson’s sister by phone. She said the birthday party was for Watson’s 5-year-old son. According to the sister, her brother is innocent and wasn’t involved in the death of Sayers Sr.’s son.
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