2023-11-27 20:14:34
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent, who were attending a Thanksgiving gathering near the University of Vermont on Saturday night, wearing traditional Palestinian scarves, in a case that apparently could have been motivated by hate and that President Joe Biden himself, along with his wife Jill Biden, have been horrified by the event.
Last Saturday, three young people of Palestinian descent who were in Burlington to celebrate Thanksgiving were injured after being shot, one of them seriously, near the University of Vermontthe police reported on Sunday.
The attack that injured the three students occurred around 6:25 p.m. on Saturday may have been a crime of intolerance, according to authorities.
Two of the men were in stable condition and the third suffered “much more serious injuries”, Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad said in a statement Sunday. The three 20-year-olds were visiting the family home of one of the victims and were walking when they were confronted by a white man armed with a gun, police said.
“Without saying a word, he fired the gun at least four times.”Murad added in the statement. “The three victims were hit, two in the torso and one in the lower extremities.”
Murad added that the three injured are of Palestinian descent. Two of them are US citizens and the other is a legal resident. Two of the men were wearing Palestinian kufiyas.
On the other hand, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre explained that President Joe Biden is closely following the course of the investigation and regretted that the attack took place just when many American families are celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday. .
“Those students should be back in school with their peers, not in a hospital room“said the spokesperson.
Police in Burlington, where the incident took place, have already arrested a suspect in the attack whom they identified as Jason J. Eaton, 48, while conducting a search in the area of the shooting in Burlington on Sunday, the department reported. of Burlington Police in a statement.
Authorities gathered evidence by searching Eaton’s apartment in a building across the street from the shooting scene. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, police said. It is unknown if Eaton has an attorney to speak on his behalf..
Regarding the Arab response, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commission issued a statement on Sunday indicating that the victims were university students with dual nationality and that “There is reason to believe that this shooting occurred because the victims are Arabs.”
A man yelled and harassed the victims, who were conversing in Arabic, and then proceeded to shoot them, according to the Commission’s statement.
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