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On Friday, a jury condemned a landlord in Illinois in a 2023 steam who claimed the life of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, Wade Alfayoumi, and had critically injured his mother.
The 73-year-old Joseph Czuba was emotionless after he was guilty for three cases of first degree, a murder attempt, two cases of severe battery and two cases of hate crimes. Fox 32 Chicago reported.
Alfayoumi’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, told the police that Czuba was annoyed on October 7, 2023, Hama’s terrorist attack on Israel and the subsequent war and attacked them on October 14, after asking him to “pray for peace”.
Wade Alfayoumi’s father, Oday Alfayoumi, right, and his uncle Mahmoud Yousef visited a vigil for Wade in the Prairie Activity and Recreation Center in Plainfield, Illinois, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
It was stabbed several times.
The war started just a week before the attack on October 7, 2023 when the Hamas attack South Israel.
The prosecutors claimed that Czuba stabbed its two years because they were Palestinian Americans, Fox 32 reported.
In a video that was shown in court on Thursday, Czuba spoke to an official about the attack in a police car.
“I was afraid that they would make me Jihad,” said Czuba.
Oday Alfayoumi and others carry the coffin of his son Wade Wade Alfayoumi on the Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Illinois, October 16, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service about Getty Images)
The film material was also captured by Czuba and said Shahin didn’t told him that she was Muslim and compared the Palestinian liberation organization with Nazis, with Nazis, According to the report.
Although there were previous problems with Shahin and her son, Czuba’s wife said that he was withdrawn and angry after he had looked at the reporting on the Hamas attack, and asked the family, reported Fox 32.
According to the report, Shahin told the Czuba court: “As a Muslim, you have to die” as he attacked her with the knife.
She joined in the bathroom and called 911, then heard her son screamed in another room, according to Fox 32.
Demonstrators take part in the Chicago Coalition for Justice in the Palestine March in Chicago on August 21, 2024. (Fox News Digital)
The 15-minute call was played in courtAnd Shahin said her son could hear screaming in the background.
Prosecutors said blood and DNA evidence was found on the knife, which was left in the boy’s body, according to the report.
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State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid, D-Bridgeview, The first Palestinian American who served in the state legislative, published an explanation that describes the case as a “intestinal hitcher”.
“My heart goes to the family of Wadeee Alfayoumi today,” said Rashid. “The jury was right to find Joseph Czuba guilty because of all charges, including murder and hate crimes.”
Fox 32 Chicago and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
