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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hanan Shaheen. The family had been renting rooms in Czuba’s home in Plainfield in 2023 when the attack happened. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Central to prosecutors’ case was ...

Mourners light candles during a vigil Thursday outside of the White House for the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum ...

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 ...