Witness credibility themes dominated the closing arguments of both sides in the murder trial of Lumumba Sayer’s Sr., who is alleged to have shot and killed a man out of revenge for his murdered son.
Victim Malcolm Watson’s family members swiftly exited the Adams County District courtroom as defense attorney Megan Downing told the jury that Sayers Sr., a former MMA fighter and Aurora anti-violence activist, did not walk up to and shoot the 28-year-old man at Watson’s son’s fifth birthday party.
Instead, Downing claimed that there was another shooter and the main witnesses — all friends and family of Watson — had formulated a decision based in hysteria that the defendant shot the man…