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A person accused of homicide, tried homicide and a hate crime in an assault on a Palestinian American lady and her younger son is scheduled to look in court docket on Monday following his indictment by an Illinois grand jury.
Joseph Czuba, 71, is anticipated to enter a plea at an arraignment on eight counts within the indictment filed final week. He’s charged within the deadly stabbing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on Oct. 14. Authorities mentioned the victims had been focused due to their Muslim religion.
Shahin instructed police that Czuba, her landlord in Plainfield in Will County, was upset over the Israel-Hamas battle and attacked them after she had urged him to “pray for peace.”
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This picture reveals Wadea Al Fayoume’s father, Oday Al Fayoume, proper, and his uncle Mahmoud Yousef attending a vigil for Wadea at Prairie Exercise and Recreation heart in Plainfield, In poor health., on Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Picture/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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Shahin, 32, is recovering from a number of stab wounds. A whole bunch of individuals attended her son’s funeral on Oct. 16.
The homicide cost within the indictment in opposition to Czuba describes the boy’s demise as the results of “exceptionally brutal or heinous habits.”
Protection legal professional George Lenard has mentioned he will not touch upon the case exterior court docket. Czuba, who’s in jail, is anticipated in court docket in Joliet, 50 miles southwest of Chicago.
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Shahin requested the general public to “pray for peace” and mentioned her son was her finest good friend in a press release issued final week by means of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The stabbings had been a part of rising hostility in opposition to Muslim and Jewish communities within the U.S. since Hamas attacked Israel.
