Biden Calls Family of Muslim Boy Fatally Stabbed in Illinois

After delivering his Oval Office address Thursday, President Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, called the family of Wadea Alfayoumi, the 6-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in what authorities say was a hate crime motivated by the child’s Muslim faith and the Israel-Hamas conflict. The Bidens spoke to the boy's father and his uncle, the White House said. Joseph Czuba, 71 years old, was being held on several counts, including a hate crime, in the stabbing death over the weekend of the boy who lived at a property where Czuba was a landlord in Plainfield Township, southwest of Chicago.