Awartani Family via Reuters(BURLINGTON, Vt.) One of the three students of Palestinian descent shot during an attack in Vermont spoke out in a text message read to his Brown University classmates during a vigil for him that turned raucous at the Ivy League campus, saying, "I am but one casualty in this much wider conflict."
Hisham Awartani, a 20-year-old junior at Brown University, who was the most seriously injured victim in Saturday s shooting in Burlington, Vermont, issued a text message that was read on his behalf at the Monday night vigil held for him at the Providence, Rhode Island, school campus.
"It s important to recognize that this is part of a larger story. This hideous crime did not happen in a vacuum," Awartani, a U.S. citizen who was raised in the West Bank, wrote in the text message. "As much as I appreciate every single one of you here today, I am one casualty in this much wider conflict."
The message was read at the vigil by a Brown U
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