Three Palestinian men walking to dinner Saturday night were confronted by a white man who, without saying a word, fired at least four shots at them, injuring all three, NBC News reports. Two of the men were hit in the chest and a third was hit in the “lower extremities,” according to police. Two of the victims are American citizens while the third is a legal US resident; a local college said one of the victims is a student there.
Two of the three men were wearing keffiyeh, the scarf-like traditional headwear some Middle Eastern men don, as they were walking to a friend’s home for dinner and conversing in Arabic along Prospect Street in Burlington. All three victims were men in their 20s, and all three are expected to survive their wounds, but two were reportedly in intensive care as of Sunday morning.