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An “anti-violence” activist in the leftist state of Colorado has been sentenced to decades behind prison bars for murder.
It is Lumumba Sayers Sr. who has been give 48 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for second-degree murder and 18 months each on charges of tampering with evidence and attempted tampering, according to a report from Denver’s Channel 7. The terms were ordered to run consecutively.
A report at Law & Crime said District Attorney Brian Mason confirmed, “Mr. Sayers’ actions directly undermined the work he claimed to dedicate his life to. A man who presented himself as a mentor to young people and an advocate for nonviolence chose to commit the very act he said he stood against.”
The convict was a mixed martial arts fighter who “provided community outreach to end the scourge of youth violence,” the report said.
But when his son, Lumumba Sayers Jr., was shot and killed in Denver’s Five Points, his father was charged with being out for revenge.
“At the birthday party, the defendant shot and killed a friend of the man police once believed was the prime suspect in — and once arrested for — the Five Points shooting [of the younger Sayers]. Sayers Sr. was originally arrested and charged with counts of first-degree murder and felony menacing,” the report said.
“Mr. Sayers murdered the father of a young boy at that boy’s fifth birthday party, an unconscionable and brutal act of violence,” the district attorney’s statement said. “This is particularly heartbreaking because Mr. Sayers had devoted part of his career to advancing the message of anti-violence. Justice is carried out in courtrooms, not in parking lots in front of children by someone seeking revenge.”
The convict was charged with the killing of Malcolm Watson, 28, in 2024, at a birthday party.
As the victim was leaving the party at around 5 p.m., a man walked up to him, pulled out a gun, and shot him “in the head at close range,” witnesses told law enforcement, the report said.
“Witnesses had stated the [shooter’s son] had been murdered about a year ago by a friend of the deceased,” a case affidavit charged. “[T]his murder was probably in retaliation or revenge.”
Sayers told the courtroom someone else fired the fatal shots and then fled, and he was “only attempting to retrieve his $15,000 gold necklace that somehow ended up near the victim’s body.”
The defense lawyers cited the convict’s “extraordinary life” and his involvement in the “Gloves Up, Guns Down” program that pushes young people away from violence.
Denver’s KDVR television said Sayers had worked “as an anti-violence advocate in the Aurora area,” and was “well known in the community for working to curb youth violence at the Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts gym in Aurora.”
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[ H/T WorldNetDaily ]
