Immigration authorities have in custody the wife and five children of the man suspected of carrying out Sunday’s firebombing attack on Jewish demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.
45-year-old illegal Egyptian immigrant Mohamed Sabry Soliman, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and possession of an incendiary device after a dozen people were injured at a march calling for the release of Israeli hostages. He also faces a federal hate crime charge.
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” Noem posted on X.
The eldest of the victims is a Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Israel Wilhelm, the Chabad director at the University of Colorado Boulder, CBS News said.
Officials say the suspect shouted “Free Palestine” as he threw two petrol bombs into the crowd.
