Mohamed Sabry Soliman told the female detective that he left in solitude that Sunday to commit his attack, leaving behind an iPhone hidden in a desk drawer with messages to his wife and their five children, and a journal, in their Colorado Springs area duplex.
He drove away alone that June 1 morning from his home in the 2300 block of Washoe Circle in the Cimarron Hills neighborhood. He planned to extract vengeance on a small group of peaceful marchers some 100 miles away in Boulder. He had come to associate them with terrible events many thousands of miles away in Gaza, authorities would later say.
A day after the attack, he was in custody, with all the trappings of what looked like a normal family life left behind. There was the cream-colored flat-roofed townhome, with the blue bicycle adorned with Spiderman insignias still standing in the xeriscape yard of rock, the small plastic toddler’s tricycle, a light blue toy car. A large, wheeled trash bin remained next to the front door, waiting for the trip to the curb so many regularly make…