An MMA fighter who became a high-profile anti-violence activist has been found guilty of murdering a dad he believed was connected to his son’s death — just moments after he left one of his own anti-gun rallies.
Lumumba Sayers Sr., 47, was convicted of second-degree murder on Monday for gunning down Malcolm Watson, 28, at a birthday party for Watson’s five-year-old son in a park in Commerce City, just outside of Denver, in Aug. 2024.
Prosecutors argued that Sayers Sr. killed Watson because he believed he was involved in a 2023 mass shooting that killed the MMA fighter’s son, Lumumba Sayers Jr., the Denver Post reported.
Sayers Sr. ran his son’s anti-violence foundation, “Gloves Up Guns Down: Get Your Heads Up in the Hood” — and went straight from the rally to Watson’s son’s party, where he shot him at close range.
Other witnesses at the party had also been at the earlier shooting in which the fighter’s son was killed. They included Sayer Sr.’s daughter and the mother of Watson’s children, both of whom were injured in the first shooting in the supposed tit-for-tat attacks.
There has to be a better way to get the desired results than just throwing your whole life away like that.
well shit man i think if someone killed your son, youd be plagued by revenge fantasies every hour of the day for life
and youd be against the sort of violence that got him killed as well
Que Cain Or Cocaine
Dude’s eyes are VERY downsy as well.
Revenge is a terrible plan.
You gotta dig a grave for you and the man you kill.