Federal officials say the wife and five children of a man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators in Boulder are being taken into custody. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made the announcement Tuesday in a post on X. Authorities say Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national who has been living in the U.S. illegally, had 18 Molotov cocktails but threw just two during Sunday's attack in which he yelled "Free Palestine." Police wrote in an affidavit that Soliman didn't carry out his full plan "because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before." Soliman faces federal hate crime and state attempted murder charges.
The FBI says the man charged in the attack in Boulder, Colorado, that left eight people injured told police he planned it for a year and specifically targeted what he described as the "Zionist group." An FBI affidavit says Mohammed Soliman confessed to the attack after being taken into custody Sunday and told the police he would do it again. The affidavit was released in support of a federal hate crime charged filed by the Justice Department on Monday. The group that was targeted had gathered in a popular pedestrian park in Boulder to draw attention to the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.
Attacks on property carrying the logo of Elon Musk's electric-car company are cropping up from coast to coast and even overseas. Tesla showrooms, vehicle lots, charging stations and even privately owned cars have been targeted. Not all of the incidents have been definitively linked to politics, but there has been a clear uptick since President Donald Trump took office and empowered Musk to oversee a new Department of Government Efficiency that's slashing government spending. Experts on domestic extremism say Tesla is a predictable target for left-wing anarchist violence, even if it's impossible to know yet if the spate of violence is a passing fad or the beginning of a worrisome trend.