The jury begins deliberations in the trial of the owner of Illinois accused of killing a Muslim child | News from the world

Joliet, Illinois-a jury in Illinois began the deliberations on Friday at the criminal trial of an owner accused of the brutal 2023 attack against an American Palestinian family who killed a 6-year-old boy and injured his mother.

The final arguments concluded just before noon at the Joseph Czuba trial, 73, and the case went to the jury.

Czuba faces positions of murder and crime of hate in the fatal stabbing of Wadoee Alfayoumi and his mother’s wound, Hanan Shaheen, on October 14, 2023 in Plainfield, about 40 miles from Chicago. The authorities alleged that the family, which rented Salas in the house of Czuba, was attacked due to its Islamic faith and in response to the war between Israel and Hamas that exploded on October 7, 2023.

The crime renewed the fears of anti-musulman discrimination in the large and established Palestinian community of the Chicago area.

Czuba has declared himself innocent. He faces murder, attempted murder, aggravated the battery and charges of hate crime in an accusation of eight positions.

The trial presented a detailed testimony of the police officers, the medical workers, the ex -wife of Czuba and Shaheen, who described how Czuba attacked her with a knife before chasing her son in a different room. Prosecutors say that the child, recently 6, had been stabbed 26 times. He was found naked with a knife still on his side.

The graphic photos of the murder, a Czuba knife holder, allegedly used that day, along with the police video images were fundamental in the case of Will County prosecutors. Sometimes, the video screens that show explicit images were placed on a television screen towards the jury and far from the public seats, which included the father and the Wadee reporters. His father, Odai Alfayoumi, is divorced from Shaheen and did not live with them at home.

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