Final person convicted in 2022 murder of East Colfax community leader 3 years later

DENVER (KDVR) — The final person charged in the 2022 shooting death of a woman that shook the East Colfax community has been found guilty of murder, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday morning.

The DA’s office in an X post on Tuesday, three years to the day since Ma Kaing was shot and killed on July 15, 2022, said a jury took less than a day to convict Pa Reh of first-degree murder and attempted murder in Kaing’s death.

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Kaing was killed by an errant bullet while unloading groceries in front of Hidden Brook Apartments on July 15, 2022

“She’s a community leader. She’s on the housing board here,” Sharon Knight, the president and CEO of Hope Communities, told FOX31’s Courtney Fromm in 2022. Kaing fled war-torn Myanmar and had lived in the East Colfax area for 15 years…

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