Boulder attack arrest documents say suspect was in disguise

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Olivia Prentzel

Reporter

THE NEWS

CRIME AND COURTS

Boulder firebombing suspect disguised himself as gardener to approach victims, arrest documents say

The suspect accused of attacking a group of people who assembled in Boulder to support Israeli hostages in Gaza wore an orange vest and carried a bin full of flowers, appearing as a gardener so that he could get closer to the group. The man, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, told authorities he bought supplies at Home Depot on his drive to Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. Jesse Paul has more details from an arrest affidavit filed by police in Boulder County.

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• Colorado’s governor, a member of Boulder’s Jewish community, knows two of the people injured in Sunday’s attack. Jared Polis has spoken with the victims he knows. He said they suffered second-degree burns and face a long road to recovery.
• Suspect in Boulder attack on group raising awareness about Israeli hostages charged with federal hate crime, faces life in prison. The suspect, 45, is being held at the Boulder County jail in the attack that injured at least 12 people.

TRANSPORTATION

Eagle County believes US Supreme Court ruling will have little effect on its legal arguments against Uinta Basin Railway

A U.S. Supreme Court decision last week that fell in favor of the Uinta Basin Railway proposal in Utah was a significant ruling for the National Environmental Policy Act, but it won’t have much of an impact on a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and Eagle County concerned about the environmental toll the project could take on Colorado communities and the Colorado River, Jason Blevins reports.

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OUTDOORS

Colorado kayakers paddle to rescue a dog that tumbled over 60-foot waterfall in Mexico

When a group of Colorado kayakers stumbled upon a dog stranded on a rock shelf next to a 90-foot waterfall in Mexico last year, they abandoned their original plans and set out on a death-defying mission to save the sopping wet, traumatized pup. Jason Blevins recounts the daring rescue that, spoiler alert, has a happy ending.

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MORE NEWS

• Another wolf in Colorado is dead, but wildlife officials haven’t said how yet. The cause of death will follow a necropsy by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The male from British Columbia was released in Colorado in January.
• Millions of kids are caregivers for elders. Here’s why their numbers might grow. More than 12% of Colorado high schoolers provide care for someone in their home who is chronically ill, elderly or disabled.

Section by Erica Breunlin | Education Reporter

THE COLORADO REPORT

• “It felt safer”: Denver cyclists worried about downtown removal of flex posts along bike lanes. The 3-foot-tall flex posts that provide “visual friction” to make cyclists safer from cars veering into the bike lanes were removed as an “aesthetic concern” to allow pedestrians to see into businesses — despite the parking of cars, which are twice the height of the posts, being allowed on the same street.
  — Denver7
• Supreme Court to hear Aurora GEO ICE prison appeal over paying detainees $1-a-day wages. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from a private prison company facing a lawsuit claiming immigration detainees were forced to work and paid $1 a day in Aurora. The company argues that because it is operating on behalf of the government, it inherits the government’s immunity to such lawsuits and that the case is a backdoor attack on federal immigration policy.
  — Sentinel Colorado
• Iconic Weld County wild animal sanctuary under pressure from housing development. Two landowners in Weld County are accusing supporters of the Wild Animal Sanctuary of issuing death threats against them for resurrecting plans to put a housing development on 40 acres adjacent to the facility.
  — Fort Lupton Press
• Pueblo, Pueblo West Safeway workers vote to authorize strike. Here’s what comes next. More than 200 Pueblo and Pueblo West Safeway workers voted May 31 to join a strike effort if labor negotiations, which have been ongoing since October, fail.
  — The Pueblo Chieftain ????
• Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations. This has very few direct connections to Colorado, but it’s a great example of a meta-analysis — where a researcher doesn’t do direct research themselves, but studies a bunch of other studies to see what parts are replicable and therefore most likely to be true. This one just happens to show that for every 1,000 black bears living in an area, the frequency of bigfoot sightings goes up by about 4%.
  — Ars Technica

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Section by Eric Lubbers | CTO & Newsletter Wrangler

THE OPINION PAGE

COLUMNS

• The attack in Boulder should be taken for what it is — an attack on Jews. It’s too easy to conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism. Peaceful Jewish marchers, saying nothing about Gaza, were violently assaulted.
  — Mike Littwin
  

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SunLit

REVIEW

“No Lie Lasts Forever” links a shamed reporter, retired serial killer

In the first slice of “No Lie Lasts Forever,” the thriller by Mark Stevens, readers catch a glimpse of protagonist Flynn Martin, a shamed TV reporter, and her retired print journalist dad paying a visit to a hollowed-out Denver Post newsroom looking to gain access to a murdered reporter’s notebooks. In the second, we see inside the mind of a reformed serial killer upset that some copycat has deflected attention his way in the ongoing investigation. With wildly divergent motives, the two parties ultimately find common cause.

READ AN EXCERPT

• Interview with the author. The narrative framework for this novel came to Stevens “in a flash” as he was driving down I-25 through Denver. Among the topics he discusses in his Q&A: why the story took more than two decades to actually appear in print.
• Listen to a Sun-Up podcast with Mark Stevens.

Section by Kevin Simpson | Writer

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