New charges filed after victim of Colorado firebombing attack dies

State attorneys levied additional charges against Mohamed Sabry Soliman on Monday after an 82-year-old woman died from injuries received during his alleged firebombing attack earlier this month. Authorities arrested and charged Soliman as a suspect in an anti-Semitic attack carried out in Boulder, Colo., earlier this month. The alleged attacker targeted a pro-Israel event with Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower, injuring over a dozen people. Karen Diamond was the first victim to die from injuries received during the attack.

This horrific attack has now claimed the life of an innocent person, and state prosecutors plan to get justice for her, District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in a Monday release. Prosecutors upgraded two preexisting counts of attempted murder to first-degree murder as a result of Diamond’s death, prosecutors noted. Prosecutors on Monday also filed an additional 66 new charges against Soliman after investigators identified an additional 14 victims injured in the attack, according to the DA’s Monday update.

How many charges is Soliman facing now? The state case against Soliman includes charges on behalf of 29 victims, 13 of whom suffered physical injury, according to the update. Charges include two counts of first-degree murder and 52 counts of attempted first-degree murder. The case also included 28 counts of varying degrees of assault or attempted assault, 18 counts related to the use of an incendiary device, and one count of animal cruelty. The dozens of state charges came about a week after federal prosecutors announced a dozen federal hate crime charges against Soliman.

Dig deeper: Read my report on the additional hate crime charges brought by federal prosecutors last week.