Teh One Who Knocks
10-17-2023, 01:53 PM
By Ronny Reyes - New York Post
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A 71-year-old landlord killed a 6-year-old boy and wounded his mother because of their Muslim faith and in response to the war between Israel and Hamas, police say.
Will County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call in Plainfield Township, Ill., late Saturday morning and found suspect Joseph Czuba sitting in front of a home near South Lincoln Highway and Lily Cache Road.
Czuba was bloodied from a cut on his forehead, and inside the home, police discovered the body of little Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American boy who had recently celebrated his sixth birthday.
The boy suffered 26 stab wounds from a large military-style knife, according to the autopsy, while his mother, Hanaan Shahin, 32, survived being stabbed more than a dozen times.
Czuba allegedly shouted, “You Muslims must die!” at the family ahead of the stabbing, according to text messages sent to the boy’s father.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
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Officials said the victims were rushed to the hospital, with Al-Fayoume declared dead and Shahin in critical condition but expected to survive.
The mother and son had lived on the ground floor of Czuba’s home for about two years, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago chapter, who condemned the violence.
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CAIR-Chicago described the stabbings as the Muslim community’s “worst nightmare,” calling it part of a disturbing spike in hate crimes targeting them after Hamas’ attack on Israel and the Jewish State’s subsequent declaration of war.
The group said the landlord “had been angry with what he was seeing in the news” and went to knock on the family’s door.
When Shahin opened the door, he allegedly attempted to choke her and then went on to stab her and her boy with a knife, CAIR said.
“What we have is a murdered Palestinian child, created by the radicalization,” said CAIR president Ahmed Rehab.
Czuba was taken into custody at the scene and transported to a hospital to treat the cut on his forehead, police said.
He was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of hate crimes and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Czuba is currently being held at the Will County’s Adult Detention facility.
https://i.imgur.com/J6OAb1G.png
A 71-year-old landlord killed a 6-year-old boy and wounded his mother because of their Muslim faith and in response to the war between Israel and Hamas, police say.
Will County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call in Plainfield Township, Ill., late Saturday morning and found suspect Joseph Czuba sitting in front of a home near South Lincoln Highway and Lily Cache Road.
Czuba was bloodied from a cut on his forehead, and inside the home, police discovered the body of little Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American boy who had recently celebrated his sixth birthday.
The boy suffered 26 stab wounds from a large military-style knife, according to the autopsy, while his mother, Hanaan Shahin, 32, survived being stabbed more than a dozen times.
Czuba allegedly shouted, “You Muslims must die!” at the family ahead of the stabbing, according to text messages sent to the boy’s father.
“Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
https://i.imgur.com/38eGJG7.png
Officials said the victims were rushed to the hospital, with Al-Fayoume declared dead and Shahin in critical condition but expected to survive.
The mother and son had lived on the ground floor of Czuba’s home for about two years, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago chapter, who condemned the violence.
https://i.imgur.com/VsINpjL.png
CAIR-Chicago described the stabbings as the Muslim community’s “worst nightmare,” calling it part of a disturbing spike in hate crimes targeting them after Hamas’ attack on Israel and the Jewish State’s subsequent declaration of war.
The group said the landlord “had been angry with what he was seeing in the news” and went to knock on the family’s door.
When Shahin opened the door, he allegedly attempted to choke her and then went on to stab her and her boy with a knife, CAIR said.
“What we have is a murdered Palestinian child, created by the radicalization,” said CAIR president Ahmed Rehab.
Czuba was taken into custody at the scene and transported to a hospital to treat the cut on his forehead, police said.
He was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of hate crimes and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
Czuba is currently being held at the Will County’s Adult Detention facility.