A 71-year-old Chicago man allegedly yelled ‘you Muslims must die’ before fatally stabbing a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy and wounding his 32-year-old mother in a tragedy that appears to be influenced by the Hamas-Israel war.
Wadea Al-Fayoume, identified by the local chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations, was pronounced dead at hospital after he was stabbed 26 times with a large military-style knife by Joseph M. Czuba, according to an autopsy Sunday.
‘Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,’ the Will County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted to social media.
