Overview
- Soliman, who disclosed the change in a weekend court filing, is set to enter guilty pleas to all 184 state counts on Thursday, which would require life without parole plus at least 400 years if the judge accepts the deal.
- Prosecutors say he threw two Molotov cocktails at a weekly pro‑Israel gathering on June 1, 2025, injuring more than a dozen people and causing the death of 82‑year‑old Karen Diamond.
- Investigators say he planned the attack for about a year, arrived with more than two dozen firebombs, and shouted “Free Palestine” during the assault.
- The federal case alleges hate‑crime violations and could carry a death sentence, while the defense says his motive was opposition to Zionism as a political belief; Colorado law does not allow capital punishment, so only the federal case could seek it.
- His lawyers asked a federal judge to block the deportation of his ex‑wife, Hayam El‑Gamal, and their five children, who were held in a Texas family detention center for 10 months and briefly re‑detained in April, saying they are needed as material witnesses.