Eight people were hospitalized with burns after a man carried out an “act of terrorism” on a pedestrian mall in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday afternoon.
The suspect, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was allegedly heard yelling “Free Palestine” while committing the attack.
Soliman took a concealed carry class to learn how to fire a gun, but “had to use Molotov cocktails [for the attack] after he was denied the purchase of a gun due to him not being a legal citizen,” state court documents said.
Soliman was taken into custody without incident and transferred to a hospital where he was examined, police said.
Soliman, who allegedly disguised himself as a gardener during the attack, allegedly told police “he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead,” documents said. “SOLIMAN stated he would do it (conduct an attack) again.”
He “said this had nothing to do with the Jewish community and was specific in the Zionist group supporting the killings of people on his land (Palestine),” the state documents said.
