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The man already serving a life sentence for killing one person and injuring more than a dozen people in a firebombing attack on demonstrators showing support for Israeli hostages has agreed to change his plea to federal hate crimes charges, according to court documents filed Friday.
Mohammed Sabry Soliman has also agreed to drop his motions trying to stop his family from being deported while his case plays out to comply with the terms of the proposed plea agreement, Soliman’s lawyers said in one filing.
Soliman had been trying to keep his ex-wife and children in the country to help in his defense in case federal prosecutors pursue the death penalty. No details about the plea agreement were included in the filings. They are expected to be revealed when Soliman appears at a Oct. 29 hearing to change his plea.
Soliman, 46, is facing 12 federal charges, including a hate crime in the June 1, 2025, attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall.
More than a dozen people, including a Holocaust survivor, were injured in the attack on a group called Run for Their Lives, which had gathered in downtown Boulder in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza. The group had been walking peacefully each week on the Pearl Street Mall for nearly two years to raise awareness for the hostages kidnapped during Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Karen Diamond, 82, was burned in the attack and died three weeks later of her injuries. She was active in Boulder’s Jewish community and civic organizations and had run the Bolder Boulder race days before the attack.
A dog named Jackson was also burned and later died.
At his sentencing in state court in May, Soliman apologized for his actions and expressed sympathy for the victims who spoke in court. But he rejected the idea that he hated Jewish people and said instead that he was against Zionism, calling it an “enemy.”
Federal immigration authorities detained Soliman’s wife and their five children, who lived in Colorado Springs, following the attack. Hayam El Gamal and her children, ages 5 to 18, were detained in a family detention center in Texas for nearly 10 months until a federal judge ordered them be released.
The family immigrated to the U.S. from Egypt and had a pending asylum case. They were working and going to school in Colorado Springs, where they had lived since 2022.
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