Angela Yang is an intern for NBC News' diversity verticals.
An Illinois man stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death and critically wounded his mother in an alleged anti-Muslim hate crime, the Will County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday, calling it a “senseless and cowardly act of violence.” “Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
said the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, shared text messages with the organization that she had sent the boy’s father from the hospital, detailing anti-Muslim statements made during the attack. said she texted, “It all happened in seconds.” The Department of Justice announced Sunday that it opened a federal hate crimes investigation into the attack, warning the incident may “further raise the fears of Muslim, Arab and Palestinian communities in our country with regard to hate-fueled violence.” Attorney General Merrick Garland said: “I am heartbroken by the abhorrent killing of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six year old child who died after being stabbed 26 times with a military-style knife.
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