Palestinian student paralysed in Vermont shooting, might not walk again
One of the three Palestinian students shot last week in the US state of Vermont is paralysed from the chest down and may not be able to walk again.
In a GoFundMe page created on Saturday to raise money for Hisham Awartani’s medical expenses, his family and friends shared that “one of the bullets that struck him is lodged in his spine and has left him paralyzed from the chest down”.
“The family is committed to his recovery and remain hopeful, in spite of the grave prognosis,” Awartani’s family said on the GoFundMe page.
Elizabeth Price, Awartani's mother, told NBC News that the injury was an "incomplete spinal injury, which means that he can feel, but he can’t move the areas that are currently paralyzed”.
Price said that he would be going into intensive rehabilitation, in the hope that it would help with his prognosis.