BOULDER, Colo. — The man accused of killing one person and injuring a dozen more in a firebomb attack on Boulder demonstrators waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Investigators say Mohamed Sabry Soliman told them he intended to kill the roughly 20 participants at the weekly event on Boulder’s Pearl Street pedestrian mall on June 1. But he threw just two of more than two dozen Molotov cocktails he had with him while yelling, “Free Palestine!” Police said he told them he got scared because he had never hurt anyone before.
He is charged with murder, attempted murder and other crimes in the attack. Federal authorities say Soliman, an Egyptian national, had been living in the U.S. illegally with his family at the time…