
When ATF agents knocked on the apartment door of the suspect accused of shooting three Palestinian college students — two of them U.S. citizens — in Burlington, Vermont, over the weekend, he held out his empty palms at his waist and responded, "I've been waiting for you," authorities said.
But when agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives asked him why, Jason James Eaton replied that he wanted a lawyer and advised he had a gun in the apartment, Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad said of the initial interaction on Sunday afternoon.
"There was shakiness and a…