JOLIET, Ill. (WKRC/WLS/CNN Newsource) – The landlord who murdered a child and seriously injured the boy’s mother in the home they were renting from him has died in custody.
Joseph Czuba, the Illinois man convicted of killing a young Muslim boy in a 2023 hate crime stabbing, has died, according to the Will County Sheriff’s Office. Czuba was 73 years old.
In May, Czuba was sentenced to 53 years in prison for the murder of 6-year-old Wadea Alfayoumi and for seriously wounding the boy’s mother in the home they were renting from him. The attack occurred just days after Hamas attacked Israel…