At least one person is in critical condition, authorities said. FBI Director Kash Patel called it a "targeted terror attack." A suspect is i
At least one person is in critical condition, authorities said. FBI Director Kash Patel called it a "targeted terror attack." A suspect is in custody.
June 1, 2025, 3:18 PM MST / Updated June 1, 2025, 5:14 PM MST
By Dennis Romero and Rebecca Cohen
Multiple people were injured, one critically, when an attacker used an incendiary device on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, who were marching to buoy awareness of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza.
FBI Director Kash Patel called the incident “a targeted terror attack” on X.
The state's attorney general, Phil Weiser, whose mother was born in a concentration camp and whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, characterized the attack as appearing to be "a hate crime given the group that was targeted."
Weiser said in the same statement Sunday afternoon that his office was ready to support local prosecutors when the time comes to file any possible charges.
The group Run for Their Lives — Boulder has been holding the demonstrations fairly regularly, sometimes weekly, since Thanksgiving 2023, following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the group has said.
Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said a suspect was in custody had suffered minor injuries that required hospitalization.
Redfearn described what dispatchers were told about the attack in front of the historic Boulder County Courthouse at 1:26 p.m.: "There was a man with a weapon and ... people were being set on fire."
