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Former Syracuse man found guilty of shooting 3 Palestinian college students in Vermont

Burlington, Vt. — A former Syracuse man was found guilty Monday of shooting three Palestinian college students three years ago in Vermont. A jury convicted Jason J. Eaton, 51, on three counts of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting on Nov. 25, 2023, in Burlington, Vermont.

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Eaton’s lawyers urged the jury to find him not guilty by reason of insanity, according to The Associated Press . The shooting paralyzed Hisham Awartani from the waist down and wounded his friends, Tahseen Aliahmad and Kinnan Abdalhamid.