At another press conference, District Attorney Michael Dougherty announced authorities identified four more victims, increasing the number to 12, during the terror attack on a pro-Israel rally in Boulder, CO.
The latest victims had minor injuries.
Two victims remain in the hospital.
Dougherty also said his office will file formal charges against the suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa.
He entered America under former President Joe Biden’s administration and received a “B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa with an authorized stay through 2/26/23.”
Then Soliman filed an asylum claim in 2022. Biden’s administration provided him with work authorization.
The authorization expired at the end of March.
The state charges will be:
Dougherty said the formal charges “will reflect 12 victims, and if more come forward, additional victims as well.”
A judge set Soliman’s bail at $10 million.
According to J. Bishop Grewell, acting U.S. Attorney for Colorado, Soliman told the FBI “he wanted them all to die.” He also did not regret his actions.
“He would go back and do it again,” added Grewell.
The FBI charging document said agents found at least 14 Molotov cocktails. Dougherty stated the authorities found 16 unused Molotov cocktails.
Soliman told one detective he didn’t use a gun because he could not buy one due to his immigration status.
Chief Stephen Redfearn of the Boulder Police Department told the press the department did not have Soliman on its radar.
“If we uncover evidence that others knew of this attack or supported the subject in this attack, rest assured that we will aggressively move to hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” proclaimed Mark Michalek, the FBI special agent in charge.
Soliman also faces two federal hate crime charges.
He faces 10 years in prison for each charge.
The charging document described how Soliman told the agents that “he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.”
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