A woman whose 6-year-old son was fatally stabbed in an attack that prosecutors say was motivated by hate said her son watched in fear as she was stabbed.

Prosectors argued that the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6, in suburban Chicago was motivated by anti-Muslim hate.

The trial for the Illinois man charged in the fatal 2023 stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in what prosecutors call a hate crime began Monday in Will County. 71-year-old Joseph Czuba is accused in the stabbing death of Wadea Al-Fayoume and seriously injuring the boy’s mother.

Hanan Shaheen was the first witness called to testify in the trial of Joseph Czuba, the Plainfield landlord charged with attacking her and killing her son, Wadee Al Fayoumi, 6.

An Illinois landlord charged with murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in a 2023 attack on a Palestinian American mother and her young son is expected at trial.

Photos of a child’s bloody body, a black knife holder and other crime scene evidence are taking center stage at the hate crime and murder trial for an Illinois landlord accused of killing a 6-year-old

Jurors were shown police video footage, officer testimony and a black knife holder on Wednesday at the murder and hate crime trial for an Illinois landlord accused of fatally stabbing a Palestinian-American boy,

Police video footage, officer testimony and a black knife holder took center stage Wednesday at the murder and hate crime trial for an Illinois landlord accused of fatally stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in 2023.