Mother of Palestinian student shot in Vermont says he suffered a spinal injury and "can't move his legs"
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Days after three 20-year-old college students of Palestinian descent were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont, the mothers of two of the young men arrived in the U.S. from Jerusalem and the West Bank to be see their children for the first time since the attack.
Tamara Tamimi, the mother of Kinnan Abdalhamid, traveled from Jerusalem and Elizabeth Price, the mother of Hisham Awartani, from the West Bank; they both shared updates about their sons' conditions at Dulles International Airport in an interview Wednesday with CBS News.
Abdalhamid has been discharged from the hospital where he and his friends were taken in the aftermath of the shooting near the University of Vermont campus on Saturday, his mother said. But Awartani, who suffered serious injuries, remained in critical condition and still could not move his legs after a bullet damaged his spine, Price told CBS News.
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