Several demonstrators were set on fire in an “act of terror” Sunday afternoon on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder during a gathering to raise awareness about people taken hostage during Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel. A suspect has been arrested. Officers responded to an area near 13th and Pearl streets at about 1:30 p.m., after receiving reports of people being set on fire. Police said there are “reports of several victims.” Redfearn said the victims had burn and other injuries. The injuries ranged from serious to minor. It’s not clear how many people were injured. UCHealth says that University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora has received two patients from the attack. Other patients were taken to Boulder Community Health hospital. The Anti-Defamation League said in a post on Facebook that the attack was targeted at a weekly meeting of Jewish community members who were walking to raise awareness of the hostages kidnapped during Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The demonstrators were part of the group Run for their Lives. Miri Kornfeld, an organizer with the Denver chapter of Run for their Lives, said five people were burned, including an older woman whose clothes caught on fire and had to be rolled on the ground to put out the flames. Bystanders also threw water on the woman, she said. Kornfeld said the group had just arrived at the courthouse on the mall and the walk’s leader was providing updates about the hostages held in Gaza, when a man with a box of bottles began to yell profanities at the group. “He didn’t make it 30 seconds through his speech before a man who was waiting there for them with a box of bottles, threw a bottle at the group,” Kornfeld said. The leader told Kornfeld that it felt like “the ground beneath them caught on fire.” Run for Their Lives had planned a walk for 1 p.m. Sunday at the corner of 8th and Pearl streets, the group’s website said. https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/01/boulder-attack-pearl-street-mall/

Multiple people were injured in an attack at a Boulder, Colorado demonstration to support Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza. Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi breaks down st...

Multiple people were injured in an attack at a Boulder, Colorado demonstration to support Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza. Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi breaks down st...

Multiple people were injured in an attack at a Boulder, Colorado demonstration to support Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza. Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi breaks down steps the FBI will take as they investigate the attack, which FBI director Kash Patel called an act of "targeted terror."