Mother of Vermont shooting victim says son 'may have to be in a wheelchair'

The mother of one of the three Palestinian students shot in Vermont over the weekend says her son has a bullet lodged in his spine and doctors overseeing his recovery aren’t sure if he will be able to walk again, according to a report. 

Elizabeth Price, whose 20-year-old son Hisham Awartani attends Brown University, told ABC News, "I'm shaking. I'm hollow inside. I'm aching to be with my son" following the incident that happened Saturday night in Burlington. 

"He's lying immobilized in a bed, but he had very high spirits in the beginning. And I think now it's beginning to sink into him the extent of -- the enormity of -- the challenge that faces him," Price reportedly said. "He may have to be in a wheelchair. … I believe that he'll be able to walk, but his life has been taken away from him as it is, and he's gonna have to recreate this new life." 

"Justice to me means making sure that the man who shot my son is behind bars," Price also told ABC News. "Justice to me is making sure that crimes like this don't happen again. Justice to me is also about my son finding a way to rebuild his life." 

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday morning said that federal authorities are probing whether the shooting was a hate crime.