BURLINGTON, Vt. — 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 underwent surgery Wednesday and will be transferred to a rehabilitation hospital in Boston next week. 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 Awartani’s relatives when they were confronted by a white man with a handgun and shot,...

The shooting of three Palestinian college students in Vermont has prompted calls for the suspect to be charged with a hate crime. Jason J. Eaton, 48, was arrested Sunday and charged with three counts of attempted second-degree murder in connection with the shooting. He has pleaded not guilty. Eaton is accused of shooting the three students Saturday night as they walked in front of his apartment building while having a conversation in Arabic and English, according to Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad. Two of the men were wearing keffiyehs, traditional...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Far away from the war in Gaza, three Palestinian college students were enjoying their Thanksgiving break in Vermont, celebrating not just the holiday but a pair of family birthdays. “If you’re in college, who wants to go to an 8-year-old’s birthday party? But these three guys did,” said Rich Price, who hosted his nephew and two friends for the long weekend. Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, all age 20, were out for a walk Saturday after the party for Price’s twin sons when...

“I don’t believe this was a hate crime,” said Mary Q. Reed, the mother of Jason J. Eaton, in a brief interview on her doorstep about an hour south of Burlington, near the shore of Lake Dunmore. SALISBURY, VT. - The mother of the Burlington, Vt., man charged with shooting three college students of Palestinian descent said Tuesday that her son wasn’t raised to harbor hatred for any group of people. She said she’s hoping for the best for the three young men who were shot and their families. “I...

The victims - The victims, all 20-year-old college students in the US, were identified as Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ali Ahmad. Here’s a quick primer on what we know about the case. A 48-year-old man was ordered held without bail Monday for allegedly shooting three young men of Palestinian descent in Burlington, Vt. on Saturday evening. Awartani attends Brown University, Abdalhamid is enrolled at Haverford College, and Ali Ahmad studies at Trinity College, the schools have said. Court papers indicate that Awartani was shot in the spine, Ali...

The mother of one of the three Palestinian young men shot in Burlington, Vermont said her son may never walk again after a bullet lodged in his spine. In interviews with NPR and CNN, Elizabeth Price, the mother of 20-year-old Hisham Awartani, said her son has an “incomplete spinal injury” and that it’s a “very long road he has in front of him.” She said her son can feel his legs but cannot move them. “The last I knew, he was still in the ICU, immobilized, to try and get...

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...

New details are emerging about the suspect accused of shooting three Palestinian students near the University of Vermont campus in an attack that is being probed as a possible hate crime. Jason Eaton, 48, was arrested on Sunday afternoon in Burlington close to the scene of the attack. He allegedly ambushed 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, police said, and two...