Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.
An FBI team is investigating an attack on demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, at the scene on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, on June 1, 2025. (Eli Imadali / AFP)
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect in the attack on an Israeli hostages rally in Colorado yesterday, is being held on a $10 million bail.
Soliman allegedly used a “makeshift flamethrower” and threw Molotov cocktails at the rally, wounding eight.
He was booked into the Boulder County Jail last night, shortly before midnight, according to a booking report from the local sheriff’s office.
Law enforcement officers detain a suspect – named as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, an Egyptian national – after an attack that injured multiple people, in Boulder, Colorado, US, June 1, 2025. (X/@OpusObscuraX/via REUTERS)
The charges listed for Soliman include two murder charges, but the charges are preliminary, have not been filed, and are subject to change. There have not been any confirmed deaths in the attack, although one victim was in critical condition last night.
Some of the other preliminary charges include using explosive or incendiary devices during a felony, assault with a weapon, and crimes against at-risk elderly.
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