
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Brown University student of Palestinian descent who was shot in Burlington, Vermont, over Thanksgiving weekend in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime will likely never walk again, according to his mother. Twenty-year-old Hisham Awartani, one of the three young Palestinian men who were spending their Thanksgiving break in Burlington, was walking with the other men during a visit to the home of one of the victims’ relatives when they were confronted by a white man with a handgun and shot, police said. Elizabeth...