The families expressed relief the suspect had been arrested, saying in a Monday statement, “This was a crime fueled by hate.” The three students were in Burlington to visit Hisham Awartani’s grandmother for Thanksgiving and were going on a walk before dinner when they were shot, said Marwan Awartani, a former Palestinian education minister who is speaking on behalf of the victims’ families. Woman arrested on hate crime charges after allegedly attacking man and his toddler Prashar, who said he was enjoying what he believed to be a lighthearted moment between the children, reached for his phone to record the screaming woman, hoping that the camera would force her to calm down. "'You and your son are terrorists, and you should get away from my son.'" "'Do you support Hamas?'" Prashar recalls the woman saying to him. Prashar, who said he was wearing a Palestinian scarf known as a keffiyeh, told CNN the woman became upset after his son started to interact with the woman's young son. Note in caption that CNN blurred a portion of this image.Īshish Prashar, 40, told CNN he was at the Brooklyn basketball court with his 18-month-old son on Monday when an unknown woman charged at the pair and hurled slurs at them before getting physical. “One in particular faces a tremendous struggle and recovery, with injuries that may be lifelong.” “Their lives have been changed forever,” Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger said at the news conference. The police chief told CNN’s Erin Burnett one victim has a spinal injury with long-term implications, one was struck in the upper torso but has a good prognosis and the other was hit in the lower extremities and was close to being discharged. “Although we do not yet have evidence to support a hate crime enhancement, I do want to be clear that there is no question, this was a hateful act,” Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George said Monday. Eaton, 48, was arrested Sunday and on Monday pleaded not guilty at his arraignment to three counts of attempted second-degree murder. We are working hard to find out this information.” “But I would urge the public and you in the media to avoid making conclusions based on statements from people who know even less than we currently do. “We still do not know as much as we want to know,” Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad told reporters at a news conference two days after the shooting. The shooting victims are Hisham Awartani, a student at Brown University in Rhode Island Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, a student at Trinity College in Connecticut, according to the Institute for Middle East Understanding. Laura Oliverio/CNNĪ world away from Gaza, Palestinian Americans in this New Jersey community hold their breath Yusra Matari stands outside Omar Mosque, a place that reminds her of her grandfather, in Paterson, New Jersey, on November 15.
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