JOLIET, Ill. – A man accused of murder, tried murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian-American woman and her young son is scheduled to appear in court on Monday following his indictmen t through an Illinois grand jury.
Joseph Czuba, 71, is predicted to input a plea at an arraignment on 8 counts in the indictment filed ultimate week. He is charged in the deadly stabbing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on Oct. 14. Authorities mentioned the sufferers had been focused on account of their Muslim religion.
Shahin instructed police that Czuba, her landlord in Plainfield in Will County, was once disillusioned over the Israel-Hamas war and attacked them after she had suggested him to “pray for peace.”
Shahin, 32, is recuperating from more than one stab wounds. Hundreds of people attended her son’s funeral on Oct. 16.
The murder rate in the indictment in opposition to Czuba describes the boy’s demise as the results of “exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior.”
Defense legal professional George Lenard has mentioned he may not remark on the case outdoor court. Czuba, who’s in prison, is predicted in court in Joliet, 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.
Shahin requested the general public to “pray for peace” and mentioned her son was once her easiest buddy in a observation issued ultimate week during the Chicago bankruptcy of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The stabbings had been a part of rising hostility in opposition to Muslim and Jewish communities in the U.S. since Hamas attacked Israel.