Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who allegedly firebombed a 2025 pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado, with Molotov cocktails, will plead guilty to murder and other state charges, according to court documents viewed by The Associated Press.
The attack happened on June 1, 2025, during a pro-Israel demonstration in the college town of Boulder, Colorado. Eighty-two-year-old Karen Diamond was killed and about a dozen others were injured.
Soliman appeared to disguise himself as a gardener before springing into action, hurling two flaming projectiles at demonstrators, according to prosecutors.
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The Egyptian national who was living in the U.S. illegally originally pleaded not guilty. Investigators said he planned the attack for a year and was driven by a desire “to kill all Zionist people.”
He faces dozens of state charges in addition to federal hate-crime charges. Prosecutors are reportedly weighing the death penalty for Soliman in his hate crime case. Soliman’s lawyers claim they’ve offered to plead guilty to the state charges in exchange for a life sentence in prison, the AP reports.
Soliman allegedly told investigators he had planned to kill the 20 people at the demonstration, which was a rally calling for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack.
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Soliman’s lawyers argue that he wasn’t targeting a religious or ethnic group, but a political movement in Zionism, exempting his crimes from hate crime status, the AP reported. Still, he faces over a dozen hate-crime charges.
Soliman allegedly had originally planned to buy a gun and shoot the demonstrators, but pivoted to the Molotov cocktails when he was denied a firearm due to his immigration status, Fox News Digital previously reported.
He will face trial Thursday when he is expected to plead guilty, the AP reported.
Fox News Digital contacted the public attorney’s office representing Soliman for comment but did not immediately receive a response. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Colorado declined to comment.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Danielle Wallace and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
