US man accused of shooting three Palestinian students charged with attempted murder

The man accused of shooting and injuring three Palestinian college students on Saturday night in the north-eastern US state of Vermont was charged with attempted murder.

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On Monday, Jason Eaton entered a plea of not guilty to charges of attempted murder and was instructed by the judge to be detained without bail.

Authorities have indicated that investigators are considering the incident as a potential hate crime.

The three 2o-year-old students, identified as Tahseen Ahmed of Trinity College Connecticut; Kinnan Abdel Hamid of Haverford College in Pennsylvania; and Hisham Awartani of Brown University, Rhode Island, are graduates of the Ramallah Friends School in the West Bank.