Three months ago, Joseph Czuba was sentenced to 53 years behind bars for the attack. He was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of 6-year-old Wadee ...

Joseph Czuba had been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the hate-crime murder of Palestinian American boy Wadee Al Fayoumi and stabbing of his mother, Hanan Shaheen in Plainfield in October 2023.

Joseph Czuba died Thursday while in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections, officials confirmed Saturday.

The Illinois man convicted of stabbing a six-year-old Palestinian American boy to death in an anti-Muslim hate crime died in ...

According to the police, Joseph Czuba stabbed the boy 26 times after taking a knife from a belt holder and leaving the blade ...