Anti-Gun Activist Convicted of Murder in Colorado Shooting
By Cam Edwards | 12:29 PM | April 29, 2026
A Colorado activist in charge of an anti-gun and anti-violence organization called Heavy Hands, Heavy Hearts has been convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a man at his son's fifth birthday party.
47-year-old Lumumba Sayers Sr. was originally charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 28-year-old Malcolm Watson, who was shot while hosting a birthday party for his young son at a park in the Denver suburb of Commerce City on August 10, 2024. According to prosecutors, Sayers was seeking revenge for the murder of his son, Lumumba Sayers, Jr. who was shot and killed in 2023, and believed that Watson had some connection to the shooting.
If it sounds like this is the kind of scenario that the senior Sayers was supposed to be teaching teens to walk away from, you're right. Heavy Hands, Heavy Hearts' signature program is called Glovez Up, Gunz Down, and its billed as a 90-day program to teach teens lthe basics of boxing and kickboxing while being "mentored along their journey by lifelong practitioners of combat sport" in order to "learn discipline, respect, and perseverance."
According to prosecutors, Sayers left an anti-violence event on the afternoon of August 10 and drove to the park where Watson was celebrating his son's birthday with family and friends.
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