Eight people were hospitalized and four others sustained more minor injuries after a man with a “makeshift flamethrower” threw an incendiary device into a crowd of protestors in a mall in

Boulder, Colo., who were calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Four women and four men between the ages of 52 to 88 who were injured in the attack were taken to Denver metro

hospitals, according to Boulder police. Two of the victims remained hospitalized as of Monday afternoon, Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said during a press conference, adding that he

believed they were the two people who were flown to University Hospital Aurora on Sunday. The previous evening, Redfearn said at least one victim was in serious condition. He described the

released. Elyana Funk, director of University of Colorado Boulder Hillel, a center for Jewish students, told CNN that several of the victims were well known among community members and that

a Holocaust survivor in her 80s and her daughter were among those injured in the attack. Funk spoke to at least one of the other injured, a woman she said was “healing from horrible burns,”

on Sunday night. Early Monday, a spokesperson for Boulder Community Health told _The New York Times_ that victims treated at Foothills Hospital Emergency Department had been transferred or

discharged, but declined to provide additional information. The victims were participating in a Run for Their Lives event, a weekly walk held in communities around the world to advocate for

the release of hostages held by Hamas. READ MORE: _I Am a Former Hamas Hostage. Here’s My Message to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu_ Authorities arrested a suspect identified as Mohamed

Sabry Soliman, 45, of El Paso County, according to the Boulder Police Department. He has been charged with sixteen state-level counts of first-degree attempted murder, as well as a number

of charges related to the use and attempted use of incendiary devices. The Department of Justice has also charged him with a federal hate crime. Soliman told police that he wanted to kill

all Zionist people and could conduct another attack, according to an affidavit filed Monday. Plans for Sunday's attack had been in motion for a year, the affidavit said Soliman told

authorities. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin identified Soliman as an undocumented immigrant who overstayed his tourism visa. He filed for asylum in

September 2022 and remained after his visa expired in February 2023, McLaughlin said. “The Colorado terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country,” McLaughlin told

TIME in a statement. READ MORE: _Ehud Barak: Israel Must Back Donald Trump’s Deal To End the War in Gaza_ The National Counterterrorism Center is working with the FBI and local authorities

to investigate the incident as a “targeted act of terrorism,” according to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The suspect yelled “Free Palestine” while throwing the incendiary

device into the crowd, FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek said Sunday evening. Authorities found 16 unused Molotov cocktails in the vicinity where Soliman was arrested,

District Attorney Michael Dougherty said on Monday. “What the charges allege that he did was to throw Molotov cocktails a group of men and women, some of them in their late 80s, burning them

as they peacefully walked on a Sunday to draw attention to Israeli hostages held in Gaza,” Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado J. Bishop Grewell said at the Monday afternoon

press conference. “When he was interviewed about the attack, he said he wanted them all to die. He had no regrets, and he would go back and do it again.”