Family members of the man charged with Sunday’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, have been taken into custody, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday.
Noem made the announcement on X, calling the suspect, Mohamed Soliman, an “illegal alien” and “terrorist.” He is facing multiple counts of attempted murder and a federal hate crimes charge for the attack that injured 12 people at a march supporting Israeli hostages.
“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,” Noem said. “I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families. Justice will be served.”
A DHS official said six people — Soliman’s wife and children — were taken into ICE custody and will now be processed under expedited removal, which allows the government to deport migrants in the U.S. illegally without holding a court hearing.
Soliman is an Egyptian national who arrived in California in 2022 on a non-immigrant visa that expired in 2023, the Department of Homeland Security said. Officials said he filed for asylum in 2022.
The family had been living in Colorado Springs. FBI agents searched the home Monday morning.
At a news conference Monday, Mike Michalek, FBI special agent in charge of the Denver field office, said the family had been cooperative in the investigation so far. Officials said after Soliman was arrested, his wife took her husband’s iPhone to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
The 45-year-old Soliman is accused of using Molotov cocktails and “makeshift flamethrower” in Sunday’s attack, burning multiple victims, police and the FBI said.
Witnesses told investigators that Soliman yelled “Free Palestine” and “End Zionist” during the attack.
The injured victims include an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor.
The group that came under attack, Run for Their Lives, has been gathering for a walk on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall every week for over a year to raise awareness about the dozens of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.
Soliman is expected to appear in federal court Friday afternoon.
In evil communist country, if you act against the interests of the state they punish your entire family
So we’re at the stage now where the government will kill you and then come for your family too?
in bad country…
I have no doubt trump sees reports from radio free asia about kim strapping loony toons dynamite on people’s heads and he probably turns to his generals and is like “we need to do that to jaywalkers”.
This is literally just the US propaganda point about North Korean punishment, they kill you and then 3 generations of your family
All in support for a small foreign nation and the military industrial complex doing the most heinous of crimes.
“I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families. Justice will be served.”
What about justice for the countless Palestinians who have been and continue to be slaughtered by the Zionist menace with the full-throated support of your own administration you bloodthirsty sack of shit. Death to America holy fucking shit.
What about justice for the countless Palestinians who still continue to be slaughtered by the Zionist empire with the full-throated support of your own administration you bloodthirsty sack of shit.
Sweetie, that’s a whataboutism
whataboutism 
Ok unrelated but one of the details in the article is that one of the victims of the attack is a holocaust survivor. It is wild to me that you could experience the holocaust firsthand and then go on to support its modern day equivalent.
Being a target of genocide doesn’t automatically make you a good person. It just means you were a target of genocide.
I guess there are two obvious outcomes of that kind of trauma - believing passionately that it should never happen again, or being willing to do absolutely anything to ensure you and yours never experience it again. Israel has done a lot of work selling itself as option 2, and the only path to option 2. This is also someone who was a toddler when WWII started and born under Nazi rule which probably doesn’t help you develop a considered attitude.
Plenty of people left the concentration camps in Europe to go perform similar ethnic cleansing operations in Palestine. Unfortunately experiencing genocide doesn’t make one understand not to perpetrate it
Most of the people who made it from the camps to Palestine were severely oppressed by the Israeli population at large. But just because you survived the camps didn’t automatically make you a good person either.
Would’ve been 8 by the wars end so probably remembers it
provided support to it
What support? This was an extremely low tech low cost attack. There wasn’t any scale to it. Like less than $50 at the hardware store. Not like he was clandestine either. Drunken raving shirt off after the fact. Didn’t run. He wanted the cops to catch him.
Just say you’re doing a terrorism and a violation of the family’s due process and rights.
Maybe investigate the current administration and it’s support of genocide which was the primary motivation. This could have never happened if Trump had the balls to take the keys away from pissreal because they’re drunk.
So looks like it’s blowback then.
Think about destruction!
