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.

Joseph Czuba was sentenced on Friday to 30 years behind bars for the racially motivated killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, whom he fatally stabbed days after the Israel-Hamas war erupted in 2023.

Authorities said Joseph Czuba targeted his tenants because they were Muslim and in response to the war between Israel and Hamas.