A jury on Friday convicted an Illinois landlord in a 2023 stabbing that claimed the lifetime of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, Wadee Alfayoumi, and left his mom critically injured.
Joseph Czuba, 73, was impassive after being discovered responsible of three counts of first-degree homicide, one depend of tried homicide, two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of committing a hate crime, FOX 32 Chicago reported.
Alfayoumi’s mom, Hanaan Shahin, informed police Czuba was upset concerning the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist assault on Israel and ensuing conflict and attacked her and her son Oct. 14, after she requested him to “pray for peace.”
Wadee Alfayoumi’s father, Oday Alfayoumi, proper, and his uncle, Mahmoud Yousef, attended a vigil for Wadee on the Prairie Exercise and Recreation Middle in Plainfield, Unwell., Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photograph/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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She was stabbed a number of instances.
The conflict started only a week previous to the assault, on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked southern Israel.
Prosecutors alleged Czuba stabbed his tenants of two years as a result of they have been Palestinian People, FOX 32 reported.
In a video proven in courtroom Thursday, Czuba spoke with an officer concerning the assault inside a police automobile.
“I used to be afraid they have been going to do Jihad on me,” Czuba mentioned.
Oday Alfayoumi and others carry the casket of his son, Wadee Alfayoumi, at Parkholm Cemetery in La Grange Park, Unwell., Oct. 16, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photos)
Footage was additionally captured of Czuba saying Shahin didn’t inform him she was Muslim and evaluating the Palestinian Liberation Group to Nazis, based on the report.
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Although there have been no earlier points with Shahin and her son, Czuba’s spouse testified he grew to become withdrawn and offended after watching information protection of the Hamas assault and requested the household to maneuver out, FOX 32 reported.Â
Based on the report, Shahin informed the courtroom Czuba mentioned, “You, as a Muslim, should die,” whereas he attacked her with the knife.
She locked herself within the rest room and referred to as 911, then heard her son screaming in one other room, based on FOX 32.
Protesters participate within the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine March in Chicago Aug. 21, 2024. (Fox Information Digital)
The 15-minute telephone name was performed in courtroom, and Shahin mentioned her son could possibly be heard screaming within the background.
Prosecutors mentioned blood and DNA proof was discovered on the knife, which was left within the boy’s physique, based on the report.
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State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid, D-Bridgeview, the primary Palestinian American to serve within the state Legislature, launched a press release describing the case as “gut-wrenching.”
“My coronary heart goes out to the household of Wadee Alfayoumi as we speak,” Rashid mentioned. “The jury was proper to seek out Joseph Czuba responsible on all expenses, together with homicide and hate crimes.”
FOX 32 Chicago and the Related Press contributed to this report.
