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Federal, state prosecutors charge suspect in Pearl Street Molotov attack; 12 victims identified
Summary
Authorities charged 45-year-old Mohammed Sabri Salomon with a federal hate-crime offense and state attempted-murder and incendiary-device counts after Sunday’s attack on a peaceful gathering at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. Investigators recovered 16 unused Molotov cocktails and say 12 people suffered injuries; two remain hospitalized.
Boulder — Federal and state prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against a man accused of throwing incendiary devices during a peaceful gathering on Pearl Street, saying the attack targeted people because of their perceived affiliation and left 12 people injured.
Acting U.S. Attorney Bishop Grull said his office charged Mohammed Sabri Salomon, 45, "with the commission of a hate crime under 18 U.S.C. § 249," an offense that, when it includes attempted murder, carries a statutory maximum sentence of life in prison.
The charges come alongside state filings. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty said his office charged Salomon with 16 counts of first-degree attempted murder — eight alleging intent and deliberation and eight alleging extreme indifference — plus multiple counts related to use and attempted use of an incendiary device. If sentences on those counts were ordered to run consecutively, Dougherty said, the combined maximum would total years in prison. A judge set a $10,000,000 cash-only bond on the state charges.
Why it matters: The federal hate-crime charge signals prosecutors’ view that the alleged attack was…
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