Liam Elder-Connors
Reporter, Public SafetyLiam is Vermont Public’s public safety reporter, focusing on law enforcement, courts and the prison system.
Liam has worked at Vermont Public since 2015 and has reported several special projects, including an investigation into one of the state's prominent landlords and a series of remembrances of Vermonters killed by COVID-19. In 2018, he reported and co-hosted JOLTED, a five-part podcast about an averted school shooting and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for his work on that project.
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One of the three young men shot in Burlington this weekend has been released from the hospital, while the other two remain hospitalized. Police say the three 20-year-old college students, two Palestinian American and one Palestinian, were shot on Saturday by a 48-year-old white man. -
The victims’ families and multiple civil rights organizations want law enforcement officials to bring hate crime charges against a man accused of shooting two Palestinian Americans and a Palestinian in Burlington this weekend. But recent history suggests obtaining a hate crime conviction in Vermont is difficult.
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Vermont Edition focuses on where we are in the investigation of the shooting of two Palestinian Americans and a Palestinian in Burlington, and what exactly a hate crime designation is.
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Groups are asking for law enforcement to investigate the shooting as a hate crime.
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Eaton, of Burlington, was arraigned in Chittenden County Superior Court Monday morning. He’ll be held in prison without bail.
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A 41-year-old man is hospitalized and in critical condition following Sunday's shooting.
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A statewide committee could strip Franklin County Sheriff John Grismore of his law enforcement credentials if they determine he violated the state’s use-of-force policy.
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Two men were shot and killed at a house in Burlington’s Old North End Sunday night. Police believe the killings were related to drugs.
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Over five-plus years, the medical respite program at Bonvouloir House served more than 200 people, and saved the hospital system millions of dollars.
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The season lasts until Nov. 26.
