Vermont Shooting Suspect Accused of Targeting Palestinian Students Pleads Not Guilty

The man accused of shooting three college students of Palestinian descent in a possible hate crime was arraigned in Vermont on Monday morning and pleaded not guilty.

Jason J. Eaton was charged with three counts of 2nd degree attempted murder.

Eaton is being held without bail in connection with Saturday's shootings of Kinnan Abdalhamid, Tahseen Ahmed and Hisham Awartani in Burlington.

Jason J. Eaton, 48, lived in an apartment building at the shooting scene. 

In a news release, the Burlington Police Department stated that they executed a search warrant on Eaton’s apartment Sunday evening and the the arrest came due to “evidence collected during that search warrant, and additional evidence developed during the course of this investigation.”