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Jason Eaton was found guilty of three counts of second-degree attempted murder by a Vermont jury after shooting three Palestinian students—Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad, and Kinnan Abdalhamid—in Burlington in November 2023. Eaton admitted to the attack but argued an insanity defense, claiming he was suffering from a psychotic episode directed by the CIA and Mossad through radio signals. The jury rejected his plea, sentencing him to face up to life in prison.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-22,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
In November 2023, Jason Eaton, a 51-year-old man in Burlington, Vermont, shot and severely injured three Palestinian American college students—Hisham Awartani, who was left paralyzed from the waist down; Tahseen Aliahmad, and Kinnan Abdalhamid. The victims were walking near the University of Vermont campus when Eaton approached them with a gun and opened fire without speaking, hitting all three.
Eaton admitted to carrying out the attack but claimed he was acting under orders from U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies during a psychotic episode. He argued an insanity defense, which the jury rejected after several hours of deliberation following a week-long trial in Chittenden Superior Court.
The conviction on three counts of attempted second-degree murder means Eaton faces up to life imprisonment with a presumptive minimum sentence of 20 years for each count. The victims, who had grown up together in the West Bank before moving to the U.S., testified about how their peaceful walk ended in violence.
Written for “Vermont School Shooting Trial” on 2026-10-08,
grounded in this article and the 5 other(s) covering the same event.
A Vermont jury on Monday handed down a unanimous verdict finding Jason Eaton guilty of seeking to murder three Palestinian students in 2023.
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Eaton → hand → 2023
Eaton admitted to carrying out the attack in November 2023, when he shot Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad, and Kinnan Abdalhamid as they took an evening walk in his neighborhood.
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they → admit → neighborhood
However, he sought to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing he was suffering from a psychotic episode during the shootings.
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he → seek → shootings
Eaton’s insanity defense was rejected by jurors at Chittenden Superior criminal court.
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defense → reject → court
They found Eaton guilty on three charges of second-degree attempted murder after several hours of deliberations conducted following a weeklong trial.
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Eaton → find → trial
Judge John Pacht ordered him jailed pending sentencing, which has yet to be scheduled.
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which → order → sentencing
Eaton faces up to life in prison.
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Eaton → face → prison
All three students survived the attack and testified in the trial.
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students → survive → trial
They grew up in the West Bank and became schoolmates in Ramallah before moving to the United States for college, with Abdalhamid attending Haverford College, Awartani attending Brown University, and Aliahmad attending Trinity College.
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Aliahmad → grow → College
While all three survived the shooting in Burlington’s Old North End, Eaton’s attack left Awartani paralyzed from the waist down.
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attack → survive → down
At the time of the shooting, the trio was visiting Awartani’s grandmother in Vermont for Thanksgiving.
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trio → visit → Thanksgiving
Eaton targeted them, confessing to the shootings, though Eaton’s lawyers claimed he carried out the attack during a psychotic break, saying he believed the CIA and Israel’s agency Mossad were talking to him through an FM radio and Bluetooth and directing him to “go out and shoot somebody.”
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agency → target → somebody
“He believed he’d been instructed to do this by a government agency or God,” Defense Attorney Joshua O’Hara said.
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O’Hara → believe → agency
Awartani’s mother, Elizabeth Price, praised the guilty verdict in comments to reporters on Monday.
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mother → praise → Monday
“The verdict cannot undo what happened or erase the trauma our families still carry, but it affirms something fundamental: Jason Eaton is responsible for what he did,” Price said.
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