KMGH-TV (Denver) | Survivor of the attack on the Boulder Pearl Street Mall participates in the 2026 BOLDERBoulder
In the massive crowd at the BOLDERBoulder is one man with an extraordinary story. He would prefer to stay under the radar but said the team he is running with says it all. On June 1, 2025, Dr. Louis Diamond left his home with his wife. For the first time, he headed to Pearl Street in Boulder to walk for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas at the time. He didn't come home for five and a half weeks. When he did come back, his house looked exactly as he left it, but everything had changed. Diamond is one of several people hurt when a man showed up and started throwing molotov cocktails at them. He was burned on both legs and on his arms, covering 20% of his body. His wife even more seriously hurt. They were both rushed to the UCHealth Burn and Frostbite Center at CU Anschutz. One year later, Diamond isn’t ready to share on camera but insisted we meet the team that helped save his life. "I saw Lou almost on a daily basis in the hospital," Dr. Arek Wiktor, director of the UCHealth Burn and Frostbite Center at CU Anschutz, said.