Three Palestinian students were shot Saturday evening in Burlington, Vermont, just before 6:30 p.m. while walking near the University of Vermont campus, according to reports.
ABC 7 pointed to a statement from the Institute for Middle East Understanding, identifying the three wounded students as “Hisham Awartani, a student at Brown University in Rhode Island; Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania; and Tahseen Ahmad, a student at Trinity College in Connecticut.”
All students were reportedly in Burlington to visit a relative of one of the three. They were walking when approached by a man with a handgun who fired four shots. Two of the students were wounded in the torso and one in “lower extremities.”
FOX News quoted Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad saying, “Without speaking, [the alleged shooter] discharged at least four rounds from the pistol and is believed to have fled.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reacted to the shooting with a post on X:
It is shocking and deeply upsetting that three young Palestinians were shot here in Burlington, VT. Hate has no place here, or anywhere. I look forward to a full investigation. My thoughts are with them and their families.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 26, 2023
The shooter or possible shooters have not been apprehended.
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