Egyptian Pleads Guilty to Murder in Boulder Firebomb Attack

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 46-year-old Egyptian national, pleaded guilty Thursday in Boulder County District Court to dozens of state felony charges, including first-degree murder, stemming from a firebomb attack last June 1 that killed one woman and injured 13 others at a demonstration in downtown Boulder, Colorado.

The attack targeted about 20 participants in a weekly rally on the Pearl Street pedestrian mall advocating for Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Prosecutors said Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails from more than two dozen he carried, while yelling "Free Palestine." Authorities also alleged he wielded a makeshift blowtorch made from a commercial weed sprayer. State prosecutors identified 29 victims in total, including those physically harmed and others nearby who could have been struck. One dog was injured, leading to an animal cruelty charge among the roughly 184 counts.

The sole fatality was 82-year-old Karen Diamond, who died weeks later from her injuries. In a statement read in court by a prosecutor, Diamond's sons, Andrew and Ethan, described their mother's final weeks as "indescribable pain" and a "living hell." They requested that Soliman be barred from...