Joseph Czuba, a Chicago landlord, stabbed two Palestinian-Americans in Plainfield, Illinois on Sunday. The six-year-old boy, recognized as Wadea Al-Fayoume by America’s largest Muslin Civil Rights Group CAIR National, has died. His mom,32 – Hanaan Shahin – is hospitalized with severe accidents. Police have linked the assault to the continued Israel-Hamas battle. ​​

Joseph Czuba, a Chicago landlord, stabbed two Palestinian-Americans in Plainfield, Illinois on Sunday. The six-year-old boy, recognized as Wadea Al-Fayoume by America’s largest Muslin Civil Rights Group CAIR National, has died. His mom,32 – Hanaan Shahin – is hospitalized with severe accidents. Police have linked the assault to the continued Israel-Hamas battle.

“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,” Will County Sheriff’s Office stated in an announcement.

The division additional added that the suspect didn’t make any statements to detectives. Officers discovered Czuba, who’s 71 years previous, sitting on the ground near the home once they arrived on the scene.

The Chicago landord was arrested and charged with counts of first-degree homicide, tried first-degree homicide, hate crimes, and aggravated battery with a lethal weapon. Police added that the kid was stabbed 26 occasions and his mom greater than 12 occasions. The six-year-old was taken to the hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.

CAIR expressed its shock and requested its Chicago chapter to carry a press convention.

“We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family’s apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume. @cairchicago will hold a press conference this afternoon to share more details, God willing. The Islamophobic rhetoric and anti-Palestinian racism being spread by politicians, media outlets, and social media platforms must stop. Now. #Palestine #Israel #Islamophobia #Wadea,” CAIR National stated on social media.