Colden was killed in San Francisco on Saturday, July 26. He and his girlfriend were waiting at a busy bus stop surrounded by families and children when he was attacked by a man with a knife. There is no making sense of this and no words to convey the devastation we are feeling.

He was only 28.

Despite the valiant efforts of the San Francisco paramedics and police, and the trauma surgery team at San Francisco General Hospital, he didn't survive his catastrophic injuries. We are deeply grateful for their efforts and the care they rendered.

As we are working to finalize arrangements and memorialize his wonderful life with events in San Francisco and back in New York, we have to simultaneously navigate a criminal homicide trial from across the country and all the unknowns of this unfamiliar process.

Colden unwillingly leaves behind a loving partner of seven years, his little sister who is just getting into road cycling, friends young and old, beloved cycling and hockey communities on both sides of the country, and his family who was immensely proud of the man he had become.