It should have been a typical Monday lunch rush at Falafel King on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. But a day after a suspected hate crime attack in the Colorado city, owner Avner Gilady and his staff were getting question after question.

Avner Gilady takes a customer's order inside Falafel King on Monday. CBS

"(There is) some strangeness in the air," he told CBS Colorado. "I don't see our regulars. It's other people that we've never seen before."

The business is located directly across the mall from the old Boulder County Courthouse where the disturbing attack happened. Gilady has owned it for more than 40 years. At 24 years old, he emigrated from Israel to the United States, landed in Denver and wound up in Boulder where he has remained to this day. While he has typically pa

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