Hisham Awartani, one of the three Palestinian college students who was shot while walking in Vermont over Thanksgiving weekend, is paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet became lodged in his spine,

An uncle of one of the victims said it never occurred to him that his nephew and his friends would have been the victims of this kind of violence when they came to stay with him in Burlington.

Hisham Awartani's mother previously said her son may not be able to move his legs for the rest of his life after the shooting left him with a bullet in his spine.

The most seriously injured of the three young Palestinian men who were shot in Vermont last month is expected to leave the hospital soon, but Hisham Awartani is paralyzed from the chest down, reports CNN.

Kinnan Abdalhamid spoke with NBC News Now, describing the horrific series of events when he and his friends Hisham Awartani and Tahseen Ali Ahmad were shot while out for a walk. "Across the sidewalk we see this man standing on his porch,