2023-10-16 05:07:00
Stabbed to death at just 6 years old. On Sunday, October 15, a septuagenarian was charged with “murder” and “hate crimes” after stabbing a Muslim woman and her 6-year-old son near Chicago. The police assure, in a press release, that this attack is linked to the war currently raging between Israel and Hamas.
The child, who suffered 26 stab wounds, died at the hospital, but the 32-year-old woman, believed to be his mother, is expected to survive, according to a news release from the Will County, Illinois Sheriff’s Office , who called the attack “heinous.” “Investigators were able to determine that the two victims of this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect because they are Muslim and because of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East involving Hamas and the Israelis,” the statement said, which specifies that the killing took place approximately 64 kilometers west of Chicago.
The sheriff’s office did not give the nationality of the victims, but, according to the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the child is Palestinian-American.
On the night from Sunday to Monday, Democratic President Joe Biden denounced a “horrible act of hatred”. “This horrific act of hatred has no place in America and goes against our core values: the freedom to worship without fear, the freedom to believe, and the freedom to be,” Joe Biden said in a statement. press release, in which he offers his condolences to the family and wishes the recovery of the boy’s mother.
Multiple stab wounds
The woman managed to call 911 while fighting off her 71-year-old assailant. “Deputies located the two victims inside the residence, in a bedroom. Both victims had multiple stab wounds to the chest, torso and upper extremities,” the sheriff’s statement said. During the autopsy, a serrated military knife with a 15 cm blade was removed from the child’s abdomen.
The head of CAIR’s Chicago office, Ahmed Rehab, told reporters that the assailant knocked on the victims’ door and first tried to choke the woman, telling her “you Muslims must die.” “, citing text messages sent by the woman to the father of the murdered boy from his hospital bed.
The war between Israel and Hamas, which has left thousands dead on both sides, was sparked after a bloody and unprecedented attack launched on October 7 by Hamas against Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip under its control. of the Palestinian Islamist movement.
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