COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Senior Homeland Security officials have announced that the wife and children of a man accused of a terror attack in Boulder were taken into custody Tuesday.
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on X that ICE and DHS were taking Mohamed Soliman's family into custody. Soliman was in the country illegally at the time of the attack, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
On Monday, a DHS spokesperson explained that the suspect entered the country in August of 2022 on a B2 visa that expired in February of 2023. He filed for asylum in September of 2022, but it was never granted.
Today, @DHSgov and @ICEGov are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist, and illegal alien, Mohamed Soliman, into ICE custody. This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this… pic.twitter.com/fcjMiyWil7
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) June 3, 2025
Noem stated that Homeland Security is investigating and will prosecute the family if they had knowledge of the attack or provided support for it.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman is facing multiple charges, including a federal hate crime charge, on top of the attempted murder charges he's facing in Colorado. Soliman, who was living with his family in the Cimarron Hills area of El Paso County.
At the time of publishing this article, senior DHS and ICE officials have not released any information about when or where the arrests took place.
This is a developing story.
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Editor's Note: An original version of this article says the family had been arrested, but officials have not confirmed that, saying the family was taken into custody.
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