The suspect fatally stabbed the 6-year-old because he was upset about the ongoing conflict involving Hamas and Israel, the sheriff's office said.
An Illinois landlord is facing hate crime charges after attacking his Muslim tenants by fatally stabbing a 6-year-old boy and injuring his mother because he was upset about the ongoing conflict involving Israel and Hamas, the local sheriff's office said.
The mother, Hanaan Shahin, 32, and her 6-year-old son Wadea Al-Fayoume, had lived on the ground floor of the house for two years, with no previous issues with Czuba prior to the attack, according to CAIR-Chicago.Czuba, enraged about the war, knocked on his tenants' door and attacked Shahin when she opened it. 'He tried to choke her and proceeded to attack her with a knife while yelling 'you Muslims must die,'' CAIR-Chicago said in a statement.
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