DENVER — A packed federal courtroom of victims and media heard the one word that marks the beginning of the end to the case of the Boulder firebomb attack that left one dead and several injured over a year ago.
“Guilty,” Mohammed Soliman said when asked how he pleaded to his 12 counts of hate crimes Thursday. The revelation followed a change in plea that was filed in court last week.
Soliman, 47, is already serving a life sentence on state charges for killing one person and injuring more than a dozen people in the June 2025 firebombing attack on downtown’s Pearl Street Mall. Prosecutors asked federal Judge John Kane to issue another life sentence for the crime.
More than a dozen people, including a Holocaust survivor, were injured. Karen Diamond, 82, died in the hospital from burn wounds three weeks after the attack. A dog also died as a result of the attack.
The crowd gathered in downtown Boulder as part of a group called Run for Their Lives. The group had been walking peacefully each week for nearly two years to raise awareness for the hostages kidnapped during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, that left nearly 1,200 dead.
Soliman and his family came over from Egypt on touri...