Ex-MMA Fighter Lumumba Sayers Arrested For Allegedly Killing Man In Suspected Retaliation For Son’s Death

Lumumba Sayers

Ex-MMA Fighter Lumumba Sayers Arrested For Allegedly Killing Man In Suspected Retaliation For Son’s Death

Former MMA Fighter Lumumba Sayers Sr. is currently behind bars on a $1 million bond for alleged murder.

According to reports, the 46-year-old is accused of fatally shooting 28-year-old Malcolm Watson over the weekend at a child’s party in Commerce, Colorado. The unfortunate incident was reportedly a revenge plot for the death of Lumumba Sayers Sr.’s son, Lumumba Sayers Jr. 

On Aug. 19, 2023,  the 23-year-old was one of two people gunned down in a Colorado neighborhood. However, the accused gunman is not the man Lumumba Sayers Sr. (allegedly) recently killed. A man named Tyrell Braxton, 24, was arrested and charged in Sayers Jr.’s murder. The case was later dismissed, but Braxton is still facing a federal charge of illegal possession of ammunition.

Sayers Sr. allegedly believed that Braxton was close with the now-deceased Watson.

Lumumba Sayers Sr. and his son, Lumumba Sayers Jr.

Seemingly wanting to take justice into his own hands, Sayers Sr. reportedly entered the pool party Watson was hosting for his 5-year-old son and shot him in the head at close range.

The affidavit said of the “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.”

Watson’s sister spoke with a local news station and shared,

“How is it a revenge killing if my brother isn’t the one who had anything to do with it?

Sayers Sr. was charged with first-degree murder and felony menacing. He’s being held at Adams County jail.

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