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00:00Thank you, Ms. McGuire.
00:02I'm Bishop Grewal.
00:05My office has charged Mohamed Sabri Salomon, age 45,
00:13with the commission of a hate crime under 18 U.S.C. Section 249.
00:20When that offense includes attempted murder,
00:24the statutory maximum federal sentence is life in prison.
00:28No one should ever be subjected to violence of any kind.
00:36But our laws recognize that such violence is particularly pernicious
00:41when someone is targeted because of their race, their religion, or their national origin.
00:48According to our complaint and the charges brought by D.A. Doherty's office,
01:02Mr. Salomon stated that he had been planning this attack for a year.
01:06And he acted because he hated what he called the Zionist group.
01:11But what the charges allege that he did was to throw Molotov cocktails at a group of men and women,
01:25some of them in their late 80s, burning them as they peacefully walked on a Sunday
01:32to draw attention to Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
01:39I'm Michael Doherty. I'm the district attorney for Boulder County.
01:42I appreciate the members of the media.
01:43I will highlight for you that there were 16 unused Molotov cocktails
01:49that were recovered by law enforcement in the hours after the incident took place.
01:5516.
01:56So I really want to thank the Boulder Police Department and their law enforcement responders
02:00as well as the first responders who provided medical aid to the victims.
02:04But that rapid response with the recovery of the 16 unused Molotov cocktails, I think, speaks for itself.
02:10So there were 16 counts of attempted murder in the first degree.
02:21Eight of those counts are for attempted murder with intent and after deliberation.
02:27The other eight counts are attempted murder with extreme indifference.
02:32So 16 counts total.
02:33If the defendant's convicted and those counts are running consecutive to one another,
02:38he would face a maximum of 384 years in state prison.
02:43He's also charged with two counts of use of an incendiary device.
02:47If convicted of those charges and they run consecutive,
02:49he would face a maximum sentence of 48 years.
02:53He's also charged with 16 other counts of attempted use of an incendiary device.
02:59And again, if convicted and if they run consecutive,
03:01the maximum on those counts would be 192 years.
03:05So 384 years on the attempted murder, 48 on the use of the Molotov cocktails,
03:12and then the attempted use would be 192 years.
03:15And we see a hate crime charge today.
03:18And can we explain that?
03:21So we've moved swiftly to charge quickly just to send the message to the community
03:25that no acts of anti-Semitism are going to be tolerated and there are severe consequences.
03:29Just because there's only one charge that has been made so far
03:34doesn't mean that we're not considering other charges that could come in the future.
03:37We'll see you next time.