A man from Illinois was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the severe wounding of his mother in an October 2023 hate crime stabbing,

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.

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.