Man pleads guilty to Colorado firebombing, groups call for family reprieve

Mohamed Soliman, a 46-year-old Egyptian citizen, pleaded guilty on Thursday to murder charges stemming from a June 2025 firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, in which he threw Molotov cocktails at demonstrators supporting Israeli captives held in Gaza, killing 82-year-old Karen Diamond. Soliman faces life sentences on two murder counts and federal hate crime charges; simultaneously, advocacy groups and lawmakers have renewed calls for the Trump administration to halt deportation proceedings against Soliman's wife and five children, who an FBI agent testified had no knowledge of the attack and have been held in immigration detention despite being uncharged.