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On the evening of December 19, 2003, 24-year-old Michael Leighton was shot at a car wash in the 3400 block of West Colfax Avenue in Denver after an encounter with an unknown man in a leather jacket. The suspect fled the scene and Leighton was taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where he died of his wounds. Authorities said motive was unclear and considered an attempted robbery or carjacking; the suspect has not been identified and the case remains unsolved.

Leighton was a junior varsity football coach at Smoky Hill High School and a teacher in the Estate I-Team, an alternative program for 11th and 12th-grade at-risk students. At 6 feet 4 inches and 270 pounds, he had been a lineman in high school in Ohio and at the University of Findlay. Students and colleagues remembered him as kind, giving, and inspiring, and his death deeply affected the school and community.

Does anyone with information about that night at the Colfax car wash remember seeing a man in a leather jacket or anything related to this case?