Denver police and federal agents are offering a combined $7,000 reward for information in the who was attending his uncle’s funeral.
Metro Denver Crime Stoppers is offering $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and prosecution in the case and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives is offering another $5,000.
Nolan Ware . on the 3200 block of Gilpin Street. Ware was among the mourners gathered Saturday morning for the funeral procession for his great uncle, Abdul Rahim Muhammad, when shots rang out.
Muhammad, 61, in his yard less than two blocks north.
The Rev. Leon Kelly, a Denver gang expert who witnessed Ware’s shooting, said he believes both the fatal shooting of Ware and Muhammad were gang-linked.
“Words were said. One thing led to another, and shots rang out,” Kelly said.
Kelly is the executive director of Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives and has been working with similar gang-reduction programs in Denver for more than three decades.
Denver police believe at least Saturday’s killing was gang-related, Detective Mary McIver confirmed Monday. But she said they still were investigating the details of those gang ties.
Both killings remain unsolved.
A is putting Denver on track to record its most violent year since 2010.
Councilman Albus Brooks and other community leaders are planning to meet at a 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss possible solutions to the violence. The meeting is set to happen at a park near where Ware was killed.
Ware’s killing marked Denver’s . That is twice as many homicides as at this point last year.
Anyone with information on the killings is asked to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul
