EBN- Three Palestinian students were shot and injured on Saturday near the University of Vermont campus.
A suspect man opened fire at Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ahmed and Kinnan Abdalhamid near University of Vermont Campus, Burlington police said.
Police later arrested a suspect in the shooting of the three young men amid calls to investigate the attack as a hate crime.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested Jason J. Eaton, 48, while conducting a search of the shooting area in Burlington at 3:38 p.m. Sunday, the Burlington Police Department said in a statement.
Authorities further collected evidence during a search of Eaton’s apartment in a building in front of the shooting location. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday, police said.
The attack that injured the three men around 6:25 p.m. Saturday may have been a hate crime, authorities previously said.
The families of the victims released a statement through the pro-Palestinian non-profit organisation Middle East Understanding, Reuters reported.
They said: “We call on law enforcement to conduct a thorough investigation, including treating this as a hate crime.
“We will not be comfortable until the shooter is brought to justice.”
After the shooting, the Council on American-Islamic relations offered a $10,000 (£7,900) reward for information leading to an arrest.
