Vermont shooting updates: Suspect in attack on Palestinian students to face Burlington court
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A suspect accused of shooting three Palestinian students near the University of Vermont campus will face arraignment today. Jason J Eaton, 48, was arrested on Sunday afternoon in Burlington close to the scene of the attack – which is being investigated as a possible hate crime. He is suspected of ambushing three 20-year-old college students – Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ahmad – as they walked to a family Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday night. The friends were speaking to each other in English and Arabic, according to the Arab...