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March 3, 2025

Landlord Who Killed 6-Year-Old Wadea al-Fayoume Found Guilty of Murder and Hate Crime
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In Illinois, a jury found landlord Joseph Czuba guilty of murder and
hate crimes for killing 6-year-old Palestinian American child Wadea
al-Fayoume and wounding his mother, Hanan Shaheen, in October 2023 in
the town of Plainfield. He now faces life in prison without parole.
After the verdict was announced, Wadea al-Fayoume's father Oday
al-Fayoume spoke at a press conference, his words translated here by
CAIR-Chicago's Executive Director Ahmed Rehab.

Oday al-Fayoume: "For me as a father, I feel like I'm discovering Wadea
and learning about Wadea more every day. And suffice for me as a father
to know that his pride in being who he was as a Palestinian, as a
Muslim, as an Arab, and being killed and targeted for that, was
sufficient for him to live through, even though it caused his death, and
that, for me, I will always remember him with pride."



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