The Colorado Springs-area man facing both state and federal charges after he allegedly set several people on fire Sunday in Boulder previously drove for Uber, a spokesperson for the ride-sharing and on-demand delivery service confirmed Tuesday.

Mohamed Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national with a recent residence in an unincorporated area of El Paso County east of Colorado Springs, started driving for the company in spring of 2023.

Uber officials did not state the exact date Soliman began driving for the company, but according to Gazette reporting, he had been granted a work visa in March 2023 after filing an asylum claim the previous September.

Soliman initially arrived in the U.S. in August 2022 on a tourist visa that expired the following February. After filing the asylum claim, h

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