
Her 6 -year -old mother witness, watched with horror while the attacker stabbed her before killing the boy.
Joliet, Ill.-American Palestine, whose 6-year-old son stabbed violently in the attack, said that he was inspired by Muslim hatred in the midst of Israel-Hamas in 2023. Fear while the owner stabbed her on the face and chest before turning the knife with the boy.
Hanan Shaheen was the first witness that stood on the trial of Joseph Czuba, 73, which was charged in the bet of Wadee Alfayoumi and Shaheen’s injury on October 14, 2023. Faith is Islam and a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, who erupted on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked the southern Israeli.
Shaheen, 33 years old, described the graphics that she was seen as blind in her right eye and there was a limited vision on the other side after CZUBA stabbed her more than once. At one point, she said that Czuba put his finger in her mouth and tried to break her teeth. As she tried to fight with him, Shaheen spoke. She pulled Czuba’s white hair while he shouted, “You must die!”
She said that Wadee stood at the corner of the room that they rented from Czuba in Plainefield, the suburb of Chicago and watched fearless while CZuba stabbed her. She witness that CZUBA shouted: “Wadee I will take care of you, I will raise you” and ” Don’t tell the person I killed your mother. “As he stabbed her
“I think it was a time when I was going to die.” Shaheen was a witness.
She said that in the end, she was able to be liberated and while she couldn’t see clearly, she ran to the bathroom to pick up the phone to call 911. She said that CZUBA followed her with his knife and tried to access the bathroom. Myself inside
The voice of the call 911 was played in the shrine. Shaheen told the victim repeatedly, “He is killing my child.”
Shaheen is a witness that while she is in the phone with the sender, she heard Wadee shouted, “Oh, not stopping!”
Shaheen keeps her head all the time. The recording at Will County Courthouse in Joeiat, she witness that she didn’t leave the bathroom until the police arrived outside the bathroom door.
Christine Vukmir asked SHAHEEN about fighting and screaming that she said that she could hear SHAHEEN said that CZUBA was fighting at the door, trying to enter the bathroom and screaming as her son’s cry.
The attack occurred at Czuba’s residence in Plainefield about 40 miles in the south of Chicago, which Shaheen testified that her and her son lived for about two years. CZUBA rented two rooms for her mother and son. They share the kitchen and living room with CZUBA and his wife.
Shaheen is a witness that she told them that she was Muslim and from Jerusalem when she met them before renting the space and she said they had never had any problems with CZubas.
Shaheen was stabbed more than one time and Wadee was stabbed 26 times.
The prosecutor said that CZUBA listened to the radio news reports of the Eastern War on the day before the attack on the mother and son.
“This happened because this defendant was afraid that the war that began on October 7, 2023, half of the world in the Middle East is coming to his door.” Michael Fitzgerald, the lawyer of Will County Assistant State, telling the jury in his opening statement.
“This happened because Hanan and Wadi are Muslims.”
Fitz Jetaral told the jury, “If not enough for this defendant to kill that little boy, he left a knife in the body of a small boy.” He said that they will hear the conversation between Czuba and Sergeant. Sergeant from the Sheriff’s office of Will County, which CZUBA compares Wadee and Shaheen and “Nominous Rice”.

Shaheen is a witness that on the day of the attack, Czuba told her that she had to leave because he wanted to rent a room for a friend. She said that he still told her, “Your people are killing Jews and babies in Israel. Muslims are not welcomed here. Not in my house. “
“I told him to pray for peace and go to my room.” She was a witness.
Many days later, she said that he told her. “Muslims are not welcomed” and she needs to find other places to live.
On the day of the attack, she said that CZUBA was angry that she was still there.
CZUBA, the dress in a suit and tie in the court, was charged with the murder, trying to murder the battery and the two hated crime, Wadee’s father, Odai Alfayoumi, who did not live at home. Participated in the court’s trial on Tuesday.
Kylie Batti, CZUBA’s lawyer, said in her opening statement, “There is a hole in the case of the state” and “with evidence”
BLATTI said that the prosecutor shared their theory about what happened that day. “But that’s all it is theory.”
Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak Decided on Thursday that she would be allowed to receive CZUBA treatment with the office of Will County, while he was in the car of the staff.
Sergeant Czuba took CZuba from the hospital to the sheriff’s office and during the journey, CZUBA said that he was afraid of his life and his wife’s life and he thinks SHAHEEN will show “Jihad’s actions” and him.
He also referred to the “grouping in Israel” and told Sergeant Sergeant that he “begged” Shaheen to leave his house. But she won’t do
The judge said that she examined the tape and considered that Sergeant Sergeant did not interrogate CZUBA and CZUBA. The prosecutor plans to use those statements to support the charges of hatred crime and causing the case of CZUBA stabbing both of their Islam in the midst of fighting in Israel and Gaza.
CZUBA’s lawyer tried to block the jury from hearing a statement, claiming that Sergeant Major had conducted CZUBA in detail and he didn’t read his rights.
But the judge said that Sergeant Sergeant has repeatedly changed the story, including asking CZUBA about his medical history, his time in the US Air Force and other topics that are not involved in the retreat.
In an interview on Tuesday at Johnny Simon, the lawyer of Shaheen, who filed illegally prosecuting the death of CZUBA and his wife, said, “We are waiting for the justice system and holding CZUBA. That he did that day
“We didn’t look for apology. We are looking for justice. “
12 jury and three options have been selected on Monday. The jury of the nine and three women from Will County, the suburbs of Chicago, as well as teachers, engineers, mechanical machinery, commercial pilot inspectors and retired construction managers. Almost all of them say that they have heard or read about the case. The judge ordered them not to read or watch the news about the case.
The experiment is expected to take about a week.
Selina Guevara reported from Joliet, Ill. And Janelle Griffith from New York.