A jury in suburban Chicago convicted the man of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6. He was the boy’s landlord.

An Illinois man was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in prison after a jury convicted him in the killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the severe wounding of his mother in an October 2023 hate crime stabbing,

Joseph Czuba, the Illinois man convicted in the killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American Wadee Alfayoumi, has been sentenced to 53 years in prison.