Man convicted of attempted murder in shooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont

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Jason Eaton was convicted by a jury for attempted murder in the shooting of three Palestinian American students in Burlington, Vermont, in late 2023. The incident left two students wounded and one paralyzed from the waist down, with the trial concluding in 2024.

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - A man was convicted by a jury of attempted murder in the late 2023 shooting of three Palestinian American students in Vermont, two of whom were wounded and one was left paralyzed from the waist down, prosecutors said on Monday. Jason Eaton was found guilty on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for the shootings of Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid on November 25, 2023, in Burlington, Vermont, prosecutor Sarah George, the Chittenden Countystate's attorney, said in a statement.