{"id":430362,"date":"2026-05-07T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:29:11","slug":"colorado-suspect-of-fire-bombing-pleads-guilty-to-all-state-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430362\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado suspect of fire-bombing pleads guilty to all state charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally last year in Boulder, Colorado<\/a>, killing one person and injuring at least a dozen, pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court.<\/p>\n

The fire-bombing suspect, Mohamed Soliman, 46, an Egyptian<\/a> national, entered his plea to dozens of felony counts, including first-degree murder under two definitions of the offense, each carrying a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

Soliman, speaking through an Arabic interpreter as he answered “guilty” to each charge recited by the Boulder County District Court judge, was expected to be formally sentenced following a brief recess.<\/p>\n

Soliman had been charged with a total of 184 counts stemming from the June 1, 2025, attack, including multiple charges of murder, attempted murder, assault, and criminal use of explosives<\/a> and incendiary devices.<\/p>\n

According to both prosecution and defense accounts in court records, Soliman tossed two Molotov cocktails at a group of people taking part in a peaceful rally in downtown Boulder organized to draw attention to the plight of Israeli hostages seized by Hamas terrorists from Gaza on October 7<\/a>, 2023.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Soliman also used a makeshift blowtorch fashioned from a commercial weed sprayer during his attack, in which he yelled “Free Palestine” as the gasoline bombs he lobbed at the crowd burst into flames.<\/p>\n

Authorities identified a total of 29 victims, including some who were burned or injured while fleeing or who were close enough to be considered targets of attempted murder. One victim, 82-year-old Karen Diamond, died of her injuries later that month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally last year in Boulder, Colorado, killing one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[868,3194,42,129899,44331,43,98,58,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-430362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-colorado","tag-court","tag-headlines","tag-molotov-cocktail","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-terrorism","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}