A jury in suburban Chicago convicted the man of murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 killing of Wadee Alfayoumi, 6. He was the boy’s landlord.

An Illinois landlord who stabbed his 6-year-old Palestinian-American tenant soon after the Oct. 7 attacks was sentenced to more than half a century of imprisonment on Friday.

An Illinois landlord found guilty of a vicious hate crime that left a 6-year-old Muslim boy dead and wounded his mother days after the start of the war in Gaza in 2023 was due in court Friday for sentencing.