Jury convicts Vermont man of attempted murder in 2023 shooting of Palestinian students

A Vermont jury has convicted Jason Eaton, 51, of attempted murder for shooting three Palestinian college students near Burlington in November 2023.

• Eaton faces up to life in prison and was ordered held in jail pending sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.
• The shooting left Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the waist down and wounded Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid.
• His lawyers argued insanity, citing his claims that CIA and Mossad sent him orders via FM radio.
• The families said the verdict affirmed Eaton's responsibility and that his words showed the shooting was a hate crime.
• The jury convicted Eaton on three counts of attempted second-degree murder for the Nov. 25, 2023 shooting of the students.
• The victims were walking while wearing keffiyehs and speaking in English and Arabic when Eaton opened fire.
• Eaton faces up to life in prison without parole on all three attempted-murder counts.