A funeral service and burial will be held for a six-year-old Muslim boy on Monday in a Chicago suburb after he was stabbed to death over the weekend by a man who targeted him and his mother because they were Palestinian Americans.
Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023.
The funeral will be held in a community known as "Little Palestine" for its heavy concentration of Palestinian Americans.The conflict has put Jewish and Palestinian Muslim communities in the United States on edge and fearful of a potential backlash against them. The suspect, Joseph Czuba, 71, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, two counts of hate crime and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Will County Sheriff's Office said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland late on Sunday said the U.S. Justice Department would open a federal hate-crime investigation into the attack.
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