Colorado: Boulder fire-bombing suspect pleads guilty to all state charges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\nSoliman, dressed in white and orange striped prison garb, spoke through an Arabic interpreter, answering “guilty” to every charge imposed by a Boulder County District Court judge during the hearing, which was shown on a livestream of the proceedings.<\/p>\n
The suspect was to be formally sentenced at a later hearing, shortly after which the victims addressed the court to recall the horror of the attack and its aftermath.<\/p>\n
Soliman was charged with a total of 184 counts related to the June 1, 2025 attack, including multiple charges of murder, attempted murder, assault and criminal use of explosives and incendiary devices.<\/p>\n
He still faces separate hate crime charges in federal court, which carry possible life in prison or the death penalty.<\/p>\n
According to both the prosecution and defense accounts in court records, Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails at people participating in a peaceful rally in downtown Boulder organized by the group Run for Your Lives on October 7, 2023, to draw attention to the plight of Israeli hostages seized by Hamas militants from Gaza.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Soliman also used a makeshift blowtorch made from a commercial weed sprayer during his attack, shouting “Free Palestine” as the gasoline bombs he threw into the crowd burst into flames.<\/p>\n
Authorities identified a total of 29 victims, including 14 who were burned or injured while fleeing, and 15 others who were so close that they could have been considered targets of an assassination attempt. One victim, 82-year-old Karen Diamond, died of her injuries later that month.<\/p>\n
According to affidavits filed in court by prosecutors, Soliman told investigators after his arrest that he “wanted to kill all Zionists” and that he had planned his attack for a year, although he delayed doing so until after his daughter graduated from high school.<\/p>\n
According to a court filing by defense attorneys, Soliman offered to plead guilty in the federal hate-crime case in exchange for a life prison sentence, but the government has not yet decided whether to accept his offer.<\/p>\n
The violence in Boulder follows the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy aides outside Washington’s Capitol Jewish Museum a month earlier.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n