The suspect who shot and killed three Palestinian students in Vermouth committed a professional crime.

 Monday, the man who is believed to have shot three Palestinian college students in Burlington, Vermont, entered a not-guilty plea to three counts of attempted second-degree murder.

About a day after he is suspected of shooting the three victims, who are all 20 years old, Jason J. Eaton, 48, was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon close to the attack scene, according to the Burlington Police Department.

 At his arraignment hearing on Monday, Eaton virtually wore an orange jumpsuit, and the judge ordered him to be held without bond.

With the escalation of hate crimes since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict, the case has attracted national attention.

A.380 Ruger semi-automatic handgun was found by authorities during the search of the suspect's house, according to a law enforcement source.

 In order to compare the weapon with bullets recovered from the victims and shell casings found at the scene, experts are firing a comparison bullet at the weapon at a ballistics lab run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

To discuss the case, Burlington officials will hold a news conference on Monday at noon.

Eaton could spend the rest of his life behind bars if found guilty of the attempted murder charges.

 According to officials, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont and other law enforcement agencies are looking into the possibility that the shooting was a hate crime.

When a man brandishing a handgun approached the students as they were strolling down the street on Saturday night, the police department said that the man fired first, shooting each student "without speaking" before taking off.

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The Institute for Middle East Understanding, which issued statements on behalf of the victims' families, identified those students that were shot as Hisham Awartani, a student at Brown University in Rhode Island; Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania; and Tahseen Ali Ahmad, a student at Trinity College in Connecticut.

These Muslim and Arab Americans argue that the rise in hate has increased their vigilance, saying, "Every move I make, I second guess."

According to a family spokesperson, two of the students' families are scheduled to visit the US this week.

Given that the hitting occurred in the face of a reported rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias incidents in the US since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out last month, the victims' families as well as a number of civil rights groups were asking with investigators to thoroughly investigate whether the shooting was motivated by hate.

These Muslim and Arab Americans claim that the rise in hate has increased their vigilance, saying, "Every move I make, I second guess."

According to a family spokesperson, two of the students' families are scheduled to visit the US this week.

Given that the hitting occurred in the face of a reported rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias incidents in the US since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out last month, the victims' families as well as a number of civil rights groups were asking with investigators to thoroughly investigate whether the shooting was motivated by hate.SOURCE THIS REPOERT