Overview

• Prosecutors say 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails and used a makeshift flamethrower at a weekly pro-Israel rally, wounding 12 people aged 52 to 88.
• The FBI has classified the assault as a targeted terrorist act and launched a federal hate crime investigation with agents on the scene since the incident.
• The indictment charges Soliman with assault with a deadly weapon, arson, hate crimes and committing a terrorist act carrying a potential life sentence.
• Court documents reveal Soliman overstayed a B-2 visa, applied for asylum and admitted he planned the attack for more than a year, stockpiling 14 additional firebombs.
• Officials report two victims remain in critical condition and Homeland Security will expand reporting hotlines after the suspect’s visa violation came to light.