Many people were injured in an attack in an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, police said on Sunday.
The attack took place at the popular Pearl Street Pedestrian Mall, known to attract tourists and college students, where a rally was being held in Gaza in support of Israeli hostages.
The suspect was identified as 45 -year -old, which shouted “Free Palestine” and used instability devices in the attack, said Mark Micchake, the special agent of FBI of Denver Field Office.
The suspect was taken into custody at the scene.
On Monday, he was accused of a federal hatred crime for attacks. He faces other allegations including attacks and use of explosives. The US Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that a tourist visa entered the US in 2022 and was “illegally” in the country.
The FBI said on Monday that the suspect said that he hatched a conspiracy to attack for a year.
Boulder police said four women and four men were taken to hospitals after the attack between 52 and 88 years.
The suspect was injured and rushed to the hospital, but the authorities did not explain the nature of his injuries.
Boulder Police chief Stephen Redrorn said he was not confident that someone else was involved. “We are completely convinced that we are alone suspect in custody,” he said.
“This was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the downtown boulder on Pearl Street and the act was unacceptable,” Radfern said at a initial press conference. “I ask you to think about the victims, the families of those victims and everyone involved in this tragedy.”
“We are investigating a targeted terrorist attack in a completely boulder, Colorado,” FBI director Kash Patel said on X.
Rubio says that ‘Terror has no place’ in the United States’
US State Secretary Marco Rubio faced X to condemn the attack.
“We are united in prayer for the victims of a targeted terrorist attack this afternoon in Boulder,” Rubio posted. “Terror has no place in our great country.”
A Jew Activist Group Anti-Defection League said on the X that the attack took place in Sunday’s “Boulder Run for Hiz Lives” incident, to recall a weekly meeting of the Jewish community and to increase visibility for Israeli hostages who are imprisoned in Gaza.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gidon Said said he was “surprised by” a terrible anti -terrorist attack targeting Jews. ” In a post on social media, he described it as “anti -opponents, fuel by blood complaints spread in the media”. Without expansion.
The US Senate minority leader Chak Shumar, a prominent Jewish Democrat, said he was closely monitoring the situation. “It is terrible, and it cannot continue. We must stand for anti -deficiencies.”
The attack came out of a Jewish Museum in Washington a week after a deadly shooting of two Israeli embassy employees, where a 31 -year -old suspect who shouted “free Palestine”, takes into custody by police.
Colorado Governor Jred Police posted on social media that it was “unbreakable that the Jewish community is facing another terrorist terrorist attack in the boulder.”
The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations in New York expressed displeasure at the attack. “Terrorism against Jews does not stop on the border against the Jews – it is already burning America roads,” he said in a statement.
“Today, Boulder, in Colorado, the Jews marched with moral and human demand: to return the hostages. In response, the Jewish protesters were brutally attacked, an attacker threw a molotov cocktail at them,” said Heer. “Don’t make any mistake – this is not a political opposition, it is terrorism.”
Edited by: Srinivas Majumdaru, Vesley Rahan
