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Joseph Czuba, a landlord convicted of the hate crime murder of 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadee Al Fayoumi, died in prison at age 73, having been sentenced to 53 years for the brutal attack driven by anti-Muslim sentiments. The case highlighted ongoing issues of Islamophobia and racial hatred, with Wadee's family and community calling for an end to such hate crimes amid ongoing violence and suffering in Gaza.
Joseph Czuba, a 71-year-old man, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, and a hate crime in the attack on a Muslim mother and her son. Czuba is accused of killing 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and injuring his mother, Hanaan Shahin, in an attack motivated by the Israel-Hamas conflict. The boy was stabbed 26 times, while the mother was stabbed a dozen times. Czuba, who was Shahin's landlord, allegedly attacked them after she told him to "pray for peace." The incident has prompted a hate crime investigation, and there has been a significant increase in Islamophobic incidents since the conflict began.