Vermont man found guilty of shooting three Palestinian students in 2023
Vermont man found guilty of shooting three Palestinian students in 2023 The man charged with shooting three young Palestinian college students in 2023 in the US state of Vermont was found guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder on Monday. The victims, Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed, were on their way to a family dinner when they were shot by 51-year-old…
In a landmark legal verdict on Monday, a Vermont man named Jason Eaton was found guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting three Palestinian college students in 2023. The victims, Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid, and Tahseen Ahmed, were en route to a family dinner when they were targeted by Eaton's gunfire.
The trio was reportedly conversing in Arabic and two of them were wearing traditional keffiyeh headscarves. Prosecutors alleged that Eaton was in a delusional state during the attack, believing he was instructed by unseen voices, possibly CIA agents, to carry out the assault in order to safeguard a Jewish family nearby. The incident left Awartani, who was pursuing studies at Brown University at the time, with severe paralysis from the chest downwards.
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