On the evening of February 6, 2021, 20-year-old Yzeed Sayyaheen was shot multiple times at Loretto Heights Park in southwest Denver near West Amherst Avenue and South Irving Street. Emergency responders took him to Swedish Hospital, where he later died. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide due to multiple gunshot wounds.

Denver police opened an investigation, but the immediate circumstances that led to the shooting were not released and no suspect information was made public. Metro Denver Crime Stoppers offered a reward for information that could lead to an arrest. Sayyaheen’s family and the local community remain without answers about who carried out the killing.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knows anything about the shooting, please come forward and contact investigators.