By Guy Page
Burlington police at 12:30 AM announced the arrest of the suspected shooter of three Palestinian men Saturday in Burlington as Jason J. Eaton, 48. He is scheduled to be arraigned today, at which time more information about him is likely to emerge.
Police say Eaton rents an apartment on North Prospect Street, about a block north of the Pearl Street intersection. Eaton also is listed in the White Pages as a Salisbury (Addison County) resident, and has a Linked In page. This page reveals him as a:
- Social entrepreneur and environmental entrepreneur
- Unitarian-Universalist
- Vax-skeptic parent
- supporter of Sterling College, a Craftsbury-based school appealing to environmentalists
- Author of an article titled “Greenwash: Maximus Global Parasite,” critical of Maximus, Inc. a multi-national government services corporation
- Interested in finance, sustainability, organic agriculture
- Proponent of creating a Neighborhood Stock Exchange in the city of Syracuse, NY. Neighborhood Stock Exchange. “Apple and Amazon can be worth a trillion dollars, what can our neighborhood be worth?,” Eaton writes in a 2019 proposal.
On his website, Eaton describes himself as a “răd′ĭ-kəl sĭt′ĭ-zən.” who has been “ɪn.səˈbɔːr.dən.ət since 1975” and “Casting out the money lenders since 2003.” At age 48 in November, 2023, Eaton would likely have been born in 1975. Nothing on Eaton’s social media specifically mentions either Palestine or Israel.
In 2009, Eaton floated a proposal for Middlebury Solari – a ‘buy local’ promotion of keeping Vermont purchasing power, taxes, and investment instate.
According to the White Pages, Eaton is a Salisbury resident who formerly lived in Syracuse, NY. His work history shows many positions with financial institutions, most recently as a sales associate with CUSO in Williston. He also has worked as a farmer and, during the pandemic, as a night cleaner for a New York noodle company.
His Linked-In page includes two Covid-19 vax-related posts: a copy of a religious exemption letter from a Unitarian-Universalist faith perspective, and an essay entitled “Fair minded skeptic on the SARS Cov-2 vaccine.”