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A Swiss court has found a Chinese student guilty of attempted murder for a 2024 knife attack on three five-year-old children near a Zurich daycare. The suspect claimed mental illness, but prosecutors argued careful planning and even questions to ChatGPT about legal consequences. The court imposed a sentence and allowed an appeal.
A Burlington jury has returned a guilty verdict in the November 2023 attack near the University of Vermont campus. Jason Eaton faces up to life in prison; sentencing has not yet been scheduled. The three Palestinian students who were shot — Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Aliahmad, and Kinnan Abdalhamid — were wounded, while Awartani was paralysed.