Colorado police say suspect in custody after reports several people were set on fire

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jun 01, 2025 6:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Police successful Boulder, Colo., said Sunday that respective radical were injured and a fishy is successful custody pursuing reports that idiosyncratic was mounting radical connected occurrence astatine an outdoor mall.

Although the FBI instantly described the incidental arsenic a "targeted panic attack," Boulder constabulary Chief Steve Redfearn said it was excessively aboriginal to sermon a motive, but that witnesses were being interviewed.

"It would beryllium irresponsible for maine to speculate connected motive this aboriginal on," helium said.

The Boulder onslaught took spot astatine a fashionable pedestrian promenade known for attracting tourists and assemblage students.

On Sunday, demonstrators with a unpaid radical called Run for Their Lives had gathered to telephone for the merchandise of hostages who stay successful Gaza. The radical has aggregate chapters crossed the satellite that regularly conscionable to locomotion to advocator for hostage releases.

Boulder constabulary said determination were "several victims" successful the attack. The injuries authorities recovered were accordant with reports of individuals being acceptable connected fire, Redfearn said, adding that injuries ranged from superior to minor.

Multiple blocks of the pedestrian promenade country were evacuated by police. The country soon aft the onslaught was tense, arsenic instrumentality enforcement agents with a constabulary canine walked done the streets looking for threats and instructed the nationalist to enactment wide of the pedestrian mall.