Overview

• The Boulder County District Attorney’s Office says that 82-year-old Karen Diamond died on June 25 from injuries sustained when Mohamed Sabry Soliman hurled Molotov cocktails and used a makeshift flamethrower at a Run for Their Lives demonstration.
• Following her death, prosecutors amended two counts of attempted first-degree murder to first-degree murder, increasing Soliman’s state charges to more than 100 counts.
• Soliman also faces 12 federal hate-crime charges for targeting the peaceful pro-Israel protest on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, where 29 victims, including 13 with physical injuries and one dog, were affected.
• Court filings allege the Egyptian national, who overstayed his B-2 visa, donned a construction vest and posed as a gardener to evade detection before launching the attack while shouting “Free Palestine.”
• Soliman, who has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, is scheduled to appear in Colorado state court on July 15 as his case proceeds toward trial.