A suspect shot three Palestinian students nearby University of Vermont The weekender made his first court appearance Monday morning.
Jason J. Eaton, 48, appeared in Chittenden County Superior Court and entered a not guilty plea to three counts of attempted second-degree murder.
Eaton is currently being held without bail pending a bond hearing, which the judge said will be scheduled in the coming days.
Three college students—Hisham Awartani of Brown University, Kinnan Abdelhamid of Haverford College and Tahsin Ahmed of Trinity College—were shot and wounded while attending a Thanksgiving holiday rally in Burlington, Vermont, around 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
The students were visiting the home of a relative of the victim and walking to dinner when they encountered a white man with a handgun, according to police, who said the gunman opened fire on the victims “without speaking.”
The shooting occurred in front of Eaton’s apartment building, police said. Eaton was arrested on Sunday afternoon Shooting scene.
The three victims, all in their 20s, remain hospitalized as of Monday morning. Two of the dead were US citizens, the third one Legal US resident.
Two of the victims were wearing the keffiyeh, the traditional headscarf Middle East. The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee said they were speaking Arabic at the time of the shooting.
The FBI in Albany, New York, posted a statement to X late Sunday saying the bureau is actively investigating the shooting. Burlington Police Department, ATF and other federal, state and local agencies.
Fox News’ Landon Mion and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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