An Illinois landlord who killed six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi and attacked his mother has been sentenced to 53 years in prison.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen. Judge Amy Bertani ...

Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen. Czuba targeted them ...

A Plainfield landlord was sentenced to 53 years in prison Friday for attacking his Palestinian American tenant and killing her son, 6-year-old Wadee Al Fayoumi — stabbing him 26 times — in one ...

Hanan Shaheen. The family had been renting rooms in Czuba’s home in Plainfield, about 40 miles from Chicago, in 2023 when the attack happened. Central to prosecutors' case was harrowing ...

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Joseph Czuba, 73, fatally stabbed the child, Wadee Alfayoumi, and wounded his mother, Hanan Shaheen, a week after Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel that year. Shaheen and her son were ...

Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen. Judge Amy Bertani ...

Hanan Shaheen. Recommended Videos Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak sentenced Czuba to 30 years in the boy's death and another 20 years consecutively for the attack on Shaheen. The judge also sentenced ...