4 More Vicims Identified in Boulder Attack, Bringing Number Hurt to 12 – ryan
Boulder, Colo. – Four Additional Victims have been identified in the boulder attacker in which a man is accused of throWing molotov cocktails into a group that has gathered to bringing to Israeli hostages in Gas, Said Monday, Bringing the Number of Injured To 12.
The man planned the Attack for More than aner and specifically target what he described as a “Zionist Group,” Authorities Said in Court Papers Charging Him with A Federal Hate Crime.
Witnesses Said the suspect, identified by boulder policy as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, yelhed “free Palestine” and use a makeshift FlamethRower and incendiary devices. The Suspect’s First Name Also Was Spelled Mohammed in Some Court Documents.
Federal and State Prosecutors Filed Separate Criminal Cases Against Soliman, Charging Him With A Hate Crime and AttemPted Murder, Respectively. He faces more states charges related to the incendiary devices, and more charges are available in federal court, where the Justice Department will be a Grand Jury Indictment that May Include Amended Allegations.
An fbi affidavit Sayys soliman confessed to the attacker after being into custody sunday and told the police he was Driven by a desire “to kill all zionist people,” a reference to the Movement and protest a jewish states in Israel.
“He Said he had to do it, he should do it, and he would not forgive himself if he did it,” Police wrote. “Mohamed described his hopes for the Zionist Group to die.”
Federal Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could speak on soliman’s behalf, and no one Answered the door at a Colorado Springs Townhouse where publics show he lived.
The Burst of Violence at the Popular Pearl Street Peedesrian Mall in Downtown Boulder Unfolded Against The Backdrop of a War Bet Israel and Hamas that continues to inflamme global tension and hattributed to a spike in antisemitic violence in the United States. The Attack Happened on the Beginning of the Jewish Holiday of Shavuot And Barely a Week AFTER AN ALBANY PARK MAN WHO ALSO YELLED “Free Palestine” was charged with lucky two shooting israeli embassy staffers otside a jewish museum in washington.
SIX VICTIMS Hospitalized
The Victims who were Were Wounded Range in Age from 52 to 88, and the Injuries Spanned from Serious to Minor, Officials Said. All Four of the Latest Victims Had What Police Described As Minor Injuries.
Six of the injured were taken to the hospitals, and four have synce been released, Said Miri Kornfeld, a denver-based organizer connected to the Group. She Said the Clothing of One of Those Who Remains Hospitalized Caught on Fire.
The Attack Occurred As People With A Volunteer Group Called Run for their Lives Was Concluding Its Weekly Demonstration to Raise Visibility for the hostages in Gaza. Video from the scnene Shows a witness showing, “He’s right there. He’s throWing molotov cocktails,” as a police officer with his druwn advance on a bars-chested man who is Holding containers in each Hand.
Witness Alex osante of San Diego he was accross the peedesrian commodity was heard the crash of a bottle breaking on the Ground and a “Boom,” Followed by People and Screaming.
In video of the scnene captured by osante, People coulued be seen pouring water on a woman on the grind who osante said caught fire during the Attack.
Molotov Cocktails Found
Soliman Said he dressed like Gardener with an orange vest to get to the group as Possible, the Purchasing Flowers from Home Depot, Police Wrote. He had the gas in a backpack sprayer but to told investigators he didn’t spray it on anyone but himself “Because he had planned on dying.”
He Told Investigators and Only Threw Two Molotov Cocktails at the Group “Because and Had Never Hurt Anyone before,” Police Wrote.
After the initial attack, osante said the man belind some bushes and then reemerged and threw a molotov Cocktail but apparently acidentally caught himself on fire as he threw it. The man thatn took off his shirt and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest before police arrived. The man dropped to the Ground and was arrested with any apparent resistance in the video osante filmed.
District Attorney Michael Doughety Said 16 Unused Molotov Cocktails Were Recovered by Law Enforcement. The devices were made up of Glass Wine Carephae Bottle or Jars With Clear Liquid and Red Rags Hanging from, The Fbi Said.
Soliman Told Investigators He Constructed Homemade Molotov Cocktails after Doing Research on YouTube.
“He struted that he had been planning the Attack for a year and was waking unilly after his daghter graduated to the attack,” the affidavit says.
SUSPECT Hospitalized after Attack
Authorities Said They Believe Soliman Acted Alone. He was Also injured and taken to a hospital. Authorities Did Not Elaborate on the Nature of His Injuries, but a Booking Photo Showed Him with A Large Bandage Over One Ear.
Soliman was living in the US ILLAGally after Entering the Country in August 2022 on A B2 Visa that Expirhed In February 2023, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary McLaughlin stated in a post on X. was grant a work Authorization in March 2023 that has been exird. Homeland Security did not immediately respond to requests for more information.
Soliman, who was Born in Egypt, Moved to Colorado Springs Three Years Ago, where he live with his wife and five kids, accorting to State Courts. He previously Spent 17 Years Living in Kuwait.
Colorado Springs Neighbors Recognized Suspect
Shameka pruiett said she knew soliman and his wife as Kindly Neighbors with Three Young Kids and Two Teenagers, Who’d Play with Pruiest’s Kids.
Another Neighbor, Kierra Johnson, Said She Could of Hear Shouting at Night from His Apartment and Once Called Police of the Screaming and Yelling.
On Sunday, pruiett saw law enforcement vehicles waiting on the street throughout the day unil the Evening, creation through a megaphone telling anyone in soliman’s home to come. NOBODY CAME OUT, AND IT DID NOT APPEAR ANYONE WAS INSIDE, PRUIETT SAID.
An Online Resume Under Soliman’s Name Said He was employed by a denver-araa health Care Company Working in Accounting and Inventory Control, with prior employers listed as companies in egypt. Under Education, The Resume Listed Al-Azhar University, A Historic Center for Islamic and Arabic Learning in Cairo.