Final arsonist in Colorado fire that killed 5 members of Senegalese family is sentenced to 60 years in prison

“It is not Dillon’s fault and it is not Gavin’s fault,” he said to the court. “Regardless of who did what, I take full responsibility. At the end of the day, my words and actions don’t take that pain away.”

Alongside Baker, 10 members of the Colorado Senegalese community gave statements to the court for the prosecution, asking Brody to ignore the plea deal and deliver the maximum sentence.

“I will never forget or forgive you for what you did to me,” said Amahdu Beye, whose baby daughter died in the flames.

Brody had to ask Beye multiple times to look at her and away from Bui when delivering his statement.

“I don’t know if I’m going to be able to say what I need to say without looking at him,” Beye said, turning back to Bui. “You killed five people, took me away from my wife, took me away from my baby that I will never have a chance to see again. If I were you, I would kill myself.”

Wearing a T-shirt reading “#justicefordiolfamily,” Ousman Ba — another family friend — also took to the stand.

“I will never call my best friend again,” he said. “I will never be able to stay up late just talking about life goals, life plans. And the thing that hurts the most for me is I can’t stop thinking about it.”

Ba said Djibril Diol asked him years ago if Denver was the right place and that Ba, who has lived in Denver since he was 6 years old, told him to come.

“After that horrific day, I didn’t know if this was my home anymore,” Ba said. “Our community was hurt and I lost the trust I had in this city.”

In March, Brody sentenced 19-year-old Seymour to 40 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder — the maximum possible sentence he faced.

Siebert was 14 at the time of the crime and prosecuted as a juvenile. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2022 and was sentenced to three years in juvenile detention followed by seven years in prison.

The cases against Bui and Seymour stalled for several months after the pair challenged the legality of the search warrant Denver police used to identify them — through Google search results — as suspects in the fire. The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the search warrant in October.

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