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(NewsNation) — The man accused of attacking a crowd of radical and injuring astatine slightest 8 successful Boulder, Colorado, has been charged with first-degree murder, according to booking documents.
Boulder County tribunal records amusement 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman is facing 8 felony charges, including execution successful the archetypal degree, though constabulary person yet to publically corroborate immoderate fatalities.
Soliman is accused of attacking a radical of demonstrators Sunday utilizing a makeshift flamethrower and an incendiary device. The radical was gathered astatine an outdoor promenade connected Boulder's fashionable Pearl Street to telephone for the merchandise of Israeli hostages successful Gaza.
As of Monday morning, instrumentality enforcement said 4 women and 4 men, ranging from ages 52 to 88, were injured successful the attack.
Mark Michalek, the peculiar cause successful complaint of the FBI’s Denver tract office, said the fishy yelled "Free Palestine" during the attack.
Soliman, an Egyptian nationalist identified by the White House arsenic an “illegal alien" who overstayed his visa, was besides wounded during the attack. He was medically evaluated earlier being booked into the Boulder County Jail, according to instrumentality enforcement.
It was unclear Monday greeting if Soliman would look further charges successful transportation with the incident, which the FBI called a "targeted panic attack."
NewsNation's Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
