Police charged a 71-year-old suburban Chicago man Sunday with a hate crime for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old boy and seriously wounding a 32-year-old woman.
According to the Will County sheriff’s office, the woman had called 911 to report that her landlord had attacked her with a knife, adding she then ran into a bathroom and continued to fight him off.
The Muslim civil liberties organization called the crime “our worst nightmare” and part of a disturbing spike in hate calls and emails since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The group cited text messages exchanged among family members that showed the attacker had made disparaging remarks about Muslims.
Not going to lie, I am surprised he even allowed them to rent from him in the first place. Surely there was some deep-seated racism there already that predates current events.
Apparently the attacker was also their landlord:
Not going to lie, I am surprised he even allowed them to rent from him in the first place. Surely there was some deep-seated racism there already that predates current events.
For the boy’s sake, now I wish he hadn’t.