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Content Warning: This story contains mentions of death, violence and Islamophobia. Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, was killed in Chicago suburb Plainfield Township Saturday morning in a hate crime. His mother Hanaan Shahin sustained serious injuries but is expected to survive. According to Wadea’s family, he had just celebrated his sixth birthday and...
Wadea Al-Fayoume recalled as kind and energetic; attorney says landlord, angered by Middle East violence, stabbed child and mother after she suggested they 'pray for peace'
Wadea al-Fayoume was laid to rest in a Chicago suburb as the family's landlord was charged with murder.
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- Crowds of mourners in a heavily Palestinian Chicago suburb paid respects Monday to a 6-year-old Muslim boy killed in an alleged hate crime, hours after authorities revealed new details about the evidence used to charge the family's landlord with stabbing the child and his mother.
The six-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a suspected hate crime over the weekend.