IL - Wadee Alfayoumi, 6, Palestinian-American, stabbed 26 times, injured mom, Plainfield Twp, 14 Oct 2023 *Hate Crimes*

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The unincorporated Plainfield landlord is accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy and injuring the boy's mother in what prosecutors say was a hate crime attack back in October 2023.

Wadee Alfayoumi was stabbed more than two dozen times and died from his injuries.

Charges against Czuba include first-degree murder and two counts of committing hate crimes.

Jury selection to begin Monday for man's trial in deadly Will Co. stabbing of Muslim boy, his mother

Joseph Czuba allegedly killed a 6-year-old boy and injured his mother because they are Muslim, prosecutors say.

abc7chicago.com

 

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“The landlord is killing me and my baby!” she screamed to the dispatcher multiple times, according to a recording of the call played in court. “He’s killing my baby in other room!”

Yelling could be heard on the background. As the roughly 15-minute recording played in court, Shaheen put her head down, clutching a tissue paper in her hand.

Trial opens for murder of six-year-old Palestinian boy in Chicago in wake of Oct. 7

Hanan Shaheen says her landlord Joseph Czuba, 73, said 'You, as a Muslim, must die,' before assaulting her and stabbing her son Wadee Alfayoumi 26 times

www.timesofisrael.com

“He could not escape,” Fitzgerald said facing jurors during opening statements. “If it wasn’t enough that this defendant killed that little boy, he left the knife in the little boy’s body.”

Mother of Palestinian American Boy Slain in Suburban Chicago Hate Crime Testifies at Trial

Joseph Czuba is charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of Hanan Shaheen. Authorities said the family was targeted because of their Islamic faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas.

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During Shaheen’s testimony in Will County court on Tuesday, Czuba’s attorney, George Lenard, asked Shaheen about her meeting with FBI agents on November 2023 and January 2024.

“It’s proper impeachment (of a witness)” Lenard said

Defense brings up FBI investigation in Plainfield Township hate crime murder trial

The mother of a child killed in what Will County prosecutors called an anti-Muslim hate crime spoke with FBI agents about the incident but federal officials are still not saying much about the investigation.

www.shawlocal.com

 

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Seventy-three-year-old Joseph Czuba faces murder, attempted murder and hate crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen, in October 2023.

https://drgnews.com/2025/02/26/muslim-boy-killed-and-woman-wounded-in-illinois-hate-crime-motivated-by-israel-hamas-war-police-say/

 

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Ill. Landlord Convicted of Fatally Stabbing Palestinian American Boy 26 Times in Anti-Muslim Hate Crime

Joseph Czuba stabbed Wadea Al-Fayoume 26 times as the child screamed 'oh no, stop' during the 2023 attack

people.com

An Illinois man has been convicted of murder and a hate crime for killing his 6-year-old Palestinian American tenant in 2023, days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel, the Associated Press reports.

A date for the sentencing has not been set.

 

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Illinois landlord found guilty for murder of Palestinian-American boy

Prosecutors said the man targeted the six-year-old and his mother over their Muslim faith following the Israel-Hamas war.

www.bbc.com

Czuba had pleaded not guilty, but jurors convicted him after deliberating for less than 90 minutes.

 

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Illinois man sentenced to 53 years for hate crime killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and wounding his mother

Joseph Czuba, 73, fatally stabbed Wadee Alfayoumi in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield Township.

www.nbcnews.com