社交媒体上发布的一段视频显示,科罗拉多州的博尔德市,恐怖嫌疑人袭击前,穆罕默德·索利曼在开车时对着镜头说话。
在视频中可以看到这个人戴着一顶帽子,穿着一件衬衫,这与美国广播公司新闻部从袭击现场获得的视频相吻合。美国广播公司新闻的视觉验证小组证实,这段视频是由一个亲哈马斯的电报小组发布的,是在丹佛向北行驶时拍摄的。
在超过两分钟的视频中,这个人用阿拉伯语讲述了他作为穆斯林对上帝的忠诚。
根据法庭文件,索利曼被指控犯有联邦仇恨罪和州指控,包括16项一级谋杀未遂罪。他几乎在星期一就出庭了。他还没有提出抗辩。
根据国土安全部的说法,他的妻子和孩子在美国移民和海关执法局的监管下,他的家人正在接受快速遣返。
美国国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆周二表示:“我们正在调查他的家人对这起令人发指的袭击知道多少,他们是否知情,或者他们是否提供了支持。”“我会继续为这次袭击的受害者和他们的家人祈祷。正义将得到伸张。”
官员们说,索利曼周日在加沙举行的倡导人质被扣押的示威活动中,涉嫌以“恐怖主义行为”投掷燃烧瓶而被捕,他一直持过期的旅游签证在美国
这位五个孩子的父亲获得了工作许可证,但也在3月到期。
法庭文件显示,索利曼出生于埃及,在科威特生活了17年,三年前搬到科罗拉多斯普林斯。
美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥(John Kerry)周一在社交媒体上写道,“鉴于昨天的恐怖袭击,所有持有签证的恐怖分子、他们的家人和恐怖分子同情者都应该知道,在特朗普政府的领导下,我们会找到你,吊销你的签证,并将你驱逐出境。”
州和联邦文件称,索利曼据称表示,他为周日的袭击计划了一年,但直到他的女儿上周四从高中毕业时才实施。
奥马尔·沙查尔是博尔德市“为他们的生命而跑”的联合领导人,他告诉美国广播公司新闻,周日下午他站在博尔德法院外的人群面前,这时一名男人扔了一个燃烧弹在他们的腿下面。
当他的朋友们在他眼前着火时,沙迦感到“立刻恐慌”。
“他们真的着火了,”他说。“我不知道我是否能表达得足够清楚——字面意思是着火了,试图把我的朋友从火里拉出来。”
“一旦有人可以帮助她,我就伸出手去(袭击者)并尝试,我不知道我在想什么,但也许是为了解决他...但是我们看到他正在接近一个装满瓶子的容器,意识到这不是一个好主意,所以我们后退了一步,”Shachar说。“我们试图尽可能地让人们远离,尽管他们中的一些人无法行走。其中一个在着火的地上。”
Shachar说路人带着水瓶进来试图帮助灭火。
十二个人官员们说,有人受伤。两名受害者仍在医院。
当局正在审查一段新发布的视频,视频显示了袭击发生后的混乱和恐慌。
法庭文件称,据称在袭击中伪装成园丁的索利曼告诉警方,“他想杀死所有犹太复国主义者,并希望他们都死了”。"索利曼声称他会再做一次(实施攻击). "
文件称,他“说这与犹太社区无关,是犹太复国主义组织支持在他的土地(巴勒斯坦)上杀人的具体表现”。
Shachar说,“逃命”组织每周日都举行和平步行活动,以提高人们对自2023年10月7日以来一直被哈马斯关押在加沙的人质的认识。
他说,参与者包括“犹太人和非犹太人,左派和右派,以色列人和非以色列人,美国人和非美国人”。"人们来这里是为了同一个目的——把那些人质带回家."
Shachar说,他希望该小组可以尽快回到他们的散步。
他说:“目前,国际组织‘为生命奔跑’要求停止行走,直到我们了解更好的安全安排和安保措施。”。“然而,就我个人而言,我会说,只要我们能做到,只要我们与警方合作,我们能做到,我会一直走下去,直到最后一名人质回家。”
索利曼参加了一个隐蔽的携带课程,学习如何开枪,但“在他因不是合法公民而被拒绝购买枪支后,不得不使用燃烧瓶(进行袭击),”州法院文件称。
美国联邦调查局丹佛特工处负责人马克·迈克莱克周一表示,嫌疑人被捕时,他“伸手可及”16个未使用的燃烧瓶。
法庭文件称,未点燃的燃烧瓶“由盛有透明液体的玻璃酒瓶或玻璃球瓶以及悬挂在瓶外的红色破布组成”。警方还发现了一个“背包式杂草喷雾器”,可能含有易燃物质。玻璃瓶和杂草喷雾器里的清亮液体,经测定是87辛烷值汽油,经测定含有二甲苯。”
Video appears to show Boulder suspect speaking to camera while driving before attack
Video appears to show Boulder suspect speaking to camera while driving before attack
A video posted on social media appears to show Boulder, Colorado,terrorism suspectMohamed Soliman speaking to the camera while driving before the attack.
The individual is seen in the video wearing a hat and shirt that match videos ABC News has obtained from the scene of the attack. The video, which was posted by a pro-Hamas Telegram group, was filmed in Denver while heading north, ABC News' Visual Verification team has confirmed.
In the over two-minute video, the individual talks about his allegiance to God as a Muslim while speaking in Arabic.
Soliman has been charged with a federal hate crime and state charges, including 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder, according to court documents. He appeared in court virtually on Monday. He has yet to enter a plea.
His wife and children are in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the family is being processed for expedited removal, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
"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," Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Tuesday. "I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families. Justice will be served."
Soliman -- who was arrested after allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails in an "act of terrorism" during a demonstration advocating for hostages being held in Gaza on Sunday on Sunday -- has been in the U.S. on an expired tourist visa, officials said
The father of five was granted a work permit, but that had also expired in March.
Soliman was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado Springs three years ago, court documents said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on social media on Monday, "In light of yesterday’s horrific attack, all terrorists, their family members, and terrorist sympathizers here on a visa should know that under the Trump Administration we will find you, revoke your visa, and deport you."
Soliman allegedly said he had been planning Sunday's attack for one year but waited until his daughter graduated from high school last Thursday to carry it out, state and federal documents said.
Omer Shachar, a co-leader of Run for Their Lives in Boulder, told ABC News he was standing in front of the group outside the Boulder courthouse Sunday afternoon when aman threw a Molotov cocktailunder their legs.
Shachar felt "panic right away" as his friends caught fire in front of his eyes.
"They're literally on fire," he said. "I don't know if I can express it enough -- literally on fire and trying to pull my friend out of the fire."
"Once someone could help her, I was reaching out to the [attacker] and try, I don't know what I thought, but maybe to tackle him ... but we saw that he's approaching to a container full of bottles and realized that it's not a good idea, so we stepped back," Shachar said. "We're trying to keep people away as much as possible, although some of them couldn't walk. One of them was on the ground where the fire is."
Shachar said passersby stepped in with water bottles to try to help put out the blaze.
Twelve peoplewere injured, officials said. Two victims remain in the hospital.
Authorities are reviewing a newly released video showing the chaos and panic in the attack's aftermath.
Soliman, who allegedly disguised himself as a gardener during the attack, told police "he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead," court 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)," documents said.
Shachar said Run for Their Lives holds a peaceful walk every Sunday to raise awareness about the hostages who remain held in Gaza by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023.
Participants include those who are "Jewish and non-Jewish, right and left, Israelis and non-Israelis, Americans and non-Americans," he said. "And people are coming for the same cause -- to bring those hostages back home."
Shachar said he hopes the group can return to their walks soon.
"At the moment, Run for the Lives, the international group, asked to stop walking until we understand better safety arrangements and security arrangements," he said. "However, personally, I will say that as long as we can do it, and as long that we're working with the police and we can do it, I will walk until the last hostage is back home."
Soliman had taken 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.
Sixteen unused Molotov cocktails were within "arm’s reach" of the suspect when he was arrested, FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek said on Monday.
The unlit Molotov cocktails were "comprised of glass wine carafe bottles or Ball jars containing clear liquid and red rags hanging out of the bottles," court documents said. Police also found a "backpack weed sprayer, potentially containing a flammable substance. The clear liquid in the glass bottles and weed sprayer was determined to be 87 octane gasoline, which was determined to contain xylene."