The man killed by a flying weight thrown off-course during a Sunday high school track-and-field meet in Colorado Springs was a 57-year-old father there to watch his son compete, El Paso County coroner officials said.

A Colorado man was killed Sunday during a high school track meet after a hammer thrown by an athlete accidentally struck him.

A “loving father” attending his son’s track meet has been identified as the spectator accidentally killed by a hammer at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs on Sunday. Wade Langston, 57, was fatally struck by a hammer during a track and field meet held at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse campus for high school students across Colorado,