A Denver jury convicted a 23-year-old man on Thursday morning of first-degree murder in the 2022 shooting death of a beloved mother and community leader in the East Colfax neighborhood.

A jury ruled Thursday that a man accused of the shooting death of Ma Kaing is guilty of murder. In July 2022, Denver businesswoman Ma Kaing was unloading groceries outside of her apartment on Xenia Street when she was killed by a stray bullet.

A man charged in the 2022 shooting death of community activist Ma Kaing was convicted by a Denver jury Thursday of first-degree murder, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.

A Denver jury on Thursday convicted one of the men charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 death of Ma Kaing in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood.