Palestinian college student speaks out about Vermont shooting which left him wounded

CBS Evening News

Nov 30 2023

One of three Palestinian college students who were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont, last weekend spoke to CBS News' Errol Barnett about the horror of the ordeal. Kinnan Abdalhamid said he ran for his life after hearing the shots, fearing his childhood friends might be dead.

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Victim in Burlington shootings speaks out

By WCAX News Team
Published: Nov. 30, 2023 at 3:52 PM EST|Updated: 14 hours ago

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - One of the victims in last weekend’s shooting in Burlington of three Palestinian American college students is speaking out about the incident.

Tahseen Ahmad, Hisham Awartani, and Kinnan Abdalhamid were shot Saturday night while walking along North Prospect Street. Jason Eaton, 48, of Burlington is accused of attempted murder after police say he fired a gun at the 20-year-old friends.

Abdalhamid told CBS News he was able to make it onto the porch of a nearby home and call for help. “I knocked there and they kind of stared at me -- the people inside at first. I was like, I told them this --please, please, I need, I need y’all to come out. They came out and I said, ‘Hey, I need y’all to call 911, my friends were shot, they might be dead.’ And they were like, ‘Okay, okay, sit down. And there was a chair on the left side that they told me to sit down on. When I sat down, I felt this extreme spike of pain and that’s when I realized I might be shot. So, I put my hand where the pain was and then I looked at it and it was soaked in blood. I was like, holy {expletive,} I’m shot.”

Abdalhamid, who was shot in his glute and has since been released from the hospital. Ahmad was shot in the chest and Awartani may be paralyzed after a bullet lodged near his spine. Both remain hospitalized.

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