Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces two counts of first-degree murder as well as 66 additional charges after more victims were identified.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

After an 82-year-old died of wounds sustained during a terror attack on a June 1 hostage rally in Boulder, Colorado, the suspect is facing enhanced charges.

The woman who was identified as Karen Diamond died tragically as a result of the severe injuries that she suffered in the attack.

On June 1, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old illegal immigrant from Egypt, threw Molotov cocktails into a crowd of people demonstrating for the release of hostages in Gaza.

Soliman, who has pleaded not guilty, is facing updated charges after the death of Diamond, including two counts of first-degree murder as well as 66 additional charges after more victims were identified.

The Boulder County District Attorney’s office has identified 14 additional victims for a total of 29 victims, 13 of whom suffered physical injury.

The updated complaint includes the following charges: two counts of first-degree murder, 52 counts of attempted first-degree murder, eight counts of first-degree assault, 18 counts of attempted first-degree assault, two counts of third-degree assault, two counts related to the use of an incendiary device, 16 counts of attempted use of an explosive device, and one count of animal cruelty.

“The horrific attack has now claimed the life of an innocent person who her family and friends loved,” Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in a statement. “Our hearts are with the Diamond family during this incredibly difficult time.”

According to an FBI affidavit,”He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead,” adding that Soliman vowed to do it again.

The affidavit also mentioned,”Throughout the interview, Soliman stated that he hated the Zionist group … and needed to stop them from ‘taking over the land,’ which he explained to be Palestine.”

The father of five said he planned the attack a year ago but delayed it until after his daughter’s graduation.

He drove a hundred miles from his home in Colorado Springs and, on the way, picked up gas, which he used in the attack.

At the site, authorities found fourteen undeployed makeshift Molotov cocktails comprised of glass wine carafe bottles or Ball jars containing clear liquid and red rags hanging out of the bottles.”

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The authorities reportedly intend on deporting Mohammed Sabry Soliman’s wife and five children in an “expedited removal.”

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

The entire family of the Egyptian charged in the Boulder, Colorado attack on anti-Hamas Jewish protestors that left 12 injured has been detained by the American authorities and faces deportation.

After Mohammed Sabry Soliman was arrested on the scene on Sunday, having allegedly thrown two Molotov cocktails and trying to use a makeshift flamethrower at the demonstrators, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents took his wife and five children into custody.

Calling Soliman a “terrorist,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement on Tuesday, “Mohammed’s despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but we’re also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it.”

They were immediately stripped of their visa status and, after the official inquiries are completed, sources told The New York Post newspaper that the authorities plan to use a legal method called “expedited removal” to force them out of the country quickly.

The family is currently being held in a detention facility in southern Texas, The Post noted.

On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that “all terrorists, their family members or terrorist sympathizers should know that under the Trump administration, we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you.”

While FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on X that the agency would investigate the attack “as targeted acts of terror,” the initial indictment against Soliman does not include terrorism charges.

He has so far been charged with a total of 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated by the charge of having committed a federal hate crime.

The hate crime charge was added because, the federal complaint said, he “willfully caused bodily injury” based on people’s “actual or perceived race, color, religion or national origin.”

Soliman, who had overstayed his work visa and was therefore in the US illegally, tried to set the small crowd of pro-Israel demonstrators on fire while yelling at them, “End Zionists,” and “Free Palestine.”

A witness, Aaron Brooks, told CNN TV that “I want to make sure that people know clearly this was an antisemitic attack. I was here. I heard what he said. I heard him clearly say ‘You’re burning my people’ or ‘You burnt my people.’”

The federal complaint additionally stated that he had told his interrogators that “he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.”

It added that Soliman had also said that “he would do it …again.”

He also said that while he had planned the attack for a year, no one, including his family, had known about it.

Initial reports said that his family was cooperating with the authorities, with his wife giving them an iPhone on which he had allegedly left them messages before taking the 100-mile trip to Boulder from their home in Colorado Springs to execute the attack.

A neighbor of the family told Fox News TV that Soliman’s wife was “a stay-at-home mom” and they were all “really nice people,” who invited their neighbors to their home and gave out food.

If Soliman is convicted, the hate charge alone carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. In addition, all the other felonies, including state charges, add up to over 600 years in jail.

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