WEBVTT 1 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:59.439 Plainfield Township in Illinois stretches across the rolling prairie landscape 2 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.479 just about thirty five miles southwest of Chicago's gleaming skyline. 3 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:06.719 It traces its routes to a Potawatamie village on the 4 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.480 banks of the due Page River and the French Canadians 5 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:12.359 who would trade with them. It was the first white 6 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:15.599 settlement in Will County, and the settlers came seeking fertile 7 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.519 farmland and opportunity. Over the decades, Plainfield evolved from a 8 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:24.000 farming community into a thriving suburban township. Long considered a 9 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:28.439 small town, Plainfield has experienced substantial growth as Chicago sprawl 10 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:32.840 reached westward. By twenty twenty three, had become a place 11 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.079 where families moved to escape the chaos of city life. 12 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.840 Tree lined straits, one pass well manicured homes and playgrounds 13 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:45.359 where children's laughter echoed on summer afternoons. It was a 14 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:47.840 community built on the belief that neighbors looked out for 15 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:52.519 each other, where different cultures could coexist peacefully in pursuit 16 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.400 of the American dream. But not everybody held that belief. 17 00:01:57.239 --> 00:02:01.439 Sometimes hate confessed or behind closed doors invisible. The neighbors 18 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:05.680 who away from their driveways and chat over backyard fences. 19 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:10.759 It was a Saturday morning, October fourteenth, twenty and twenty three, 20 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.360 at a duplex home on a tree lined street. A 21 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.599 Palestinian mother and her six year old son were going 22 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:20.400 about their morning when they heard a knock on the 23 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:25.080 front door. What happened next shook the world to its core. 24 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:29.599 Male lord's killing baby with a knife. Female is in 25 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:34.400 the bathroom the ambulance stage, possibly two stabbing victims, female 26 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:49.360 and child. Female has been stabbed a server time actively pleading. 27 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.280 In twenty and eleven, Hanan Shaheen made the decision to 28 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:03.599 leave her homeland of Palestine and start afresh in the 29 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:07.719 United States. For years, she had watched their lives shrink 30 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.439 beneath the weight of conflict, restriction, and uncertainty. At the time, 31 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:16.319 the Israeli Palestinian conflict was entering yet another turbulent phase, 32 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.159 though far from new, two thousand and eleven was marked 33 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:23.639 by deepening political fractures and escalating tensions in the region. 34 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:28.560 The Palestinian territories, particularly the West Bank, where many like 35 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:34.240 Hanan lived, were gripped by economic stagnation and political deadlock. Gaza, 36 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.879 which was under an Israeli blockade since two thousand and 37 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.000 seven and governed by Hamas, was railing from the aftermath 38 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:43.039 of the two thousand and eight to two thousand and 39 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:49.159 nine Gaza War, Israeli military incursions, settler expansion, and internal 40 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:54.599 political fragmentation left ordinary families with dwindling opportunities and an 41 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:59.800 overwhelming sense of insecurity. For Hanan daily life meant navigating 42 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:04.000 to checkpoints, a stagnant job market, and the constant hum 43 00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:09.280 of anxiety. Education, health care, freedom of movement, things others 44 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.080 may take for granted were often out of reach or 45 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:16.959 heavily restricted, and Ann dreamed of starting a family, building 46 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.040 a life with possibility, and simply being able to move 47 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:24.160 through the world without fear. So she left, arriving not 48 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:26.680 just as an immigrant, but as a survivor of a 49 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.319 long conflict, seeking dignity pace in a place where her 50 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:34.639 future children might thrive. In America, she met Ode al 51 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.160 fa Yume, another Palestinian who had made the same difficult 52 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.759 journey three years after her. Together they built a new life, 53 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.519 and in time they welcomed the sun, and Anna and 54 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.399 Ode looked at their son and saw not just their child, 55 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:52.120 but their hopes made flesh what Dea was, by all accounts, 56 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.319 an extraordinary little boy. He was extraordinary in the way 57 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:00.759 that only children can be, completely and authentically himself. His father, 58 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.360 O Day, would later remember asking his son what he 59 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:09.160 loved the most. The answer came without hesitation. Everybody would. 60 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:12.759 He loved his toys, especially lego blocks that he'd spend 61 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:19.319 hours assembling into fantastic creations. He loved anything with the ball, basketball, soccer, 62 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:23.399 it didn't really matter. He also loved color to swing 63 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:25.680 at the local park until his mother called him in 64 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:29.800 for dinner. He loved hugs and kisses. He couldn't say 65 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.600 goodbye to somebody without sending kisses. He joined his parents 66 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.160 in prayer each day, finding joy in their shared faith. 67 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:41.120 He was also fascinated by the Solar system, by the 68 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:45.120 vastness of space, and the mystery of distant planets. But 69 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.680 perhaps most remarkably would he loved school. Every morning, he'd 70 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.199 wake up excited for another day of learning, another chance 71 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.839 to be with his classmates. His teacher would later say 72 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:58.639 that he was the kind of child who made others 73 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.959 smile just by being himself. All his words are positive 74 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.480 and good. His mother would remember He was in every 75 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:20.639 sense a child filled with light. After Hanana and Oday separated, 76 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.399 she found herself looking for a new place to live 77 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.839 with her son Wdea. The search led her to a 78 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:30.720 duplex near South Lincoln Highway and Plainfield owned by a 79 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.800 seventy one year old man named Joseph Suba. Joseph lived 80 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:37.519 on the upper floor with his wife of thirty years Mary. 81 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:40.439 They were offering two rooms on the ground floor for 82 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.600 rent three hundred dollars a month, with shared access to 83 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.800 the living room and kitchen. For a single mother trying 84 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.920 to make ends mate, it seemed like a reasonable arrangement. 85 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:54.160 During their in person interview, Hannan was upfront about who 86 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.920 they were. She told the Zubas that she and Wodea 87 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:02.680 were from Jerusalem and that they were Muslim. Joseph and Mary, 88 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.279 who were Catholic, said they had no problem with this. 89 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:07.879 As long as the rent was paid and there were 90 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:11.959 good tenants, everybody would get along fine. And for a 91 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.160 while they did more than get along. It became something 92 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:19.519 like a family. Joseph didn't just tolerate little Wdea. He 93 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.240 embraced him. He built the boyetry house in the backyard. 94 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.399 He brought him toys. He set up a blow up 95 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.560 swimming pool for the hot summer days. He installed the 96 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.319 basketball hoop and even put stairs nearby so Wadea could 97 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.639 reach the rim with his shots. People who knew them 98 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.639 said that Joseph traded Withdea like the grandson he never had. 99 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.000 On the seventh of October twenty twenty three, the militant 100 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.240 group A MASS launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, 101 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:03.000 breaching the heavily for border fence that separates Gaza from 102 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:07.000 Israeli territory. In a matter of ours, over a thousand 103 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:11.839 Israelis were killed and hundreds of others taken hostage. What 104 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:14.959 followed was an immediate a mass of Israeli military response, 105 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.399 including air strikes, a ground invasion, and a full siege 106 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:23.519 on Gaza. The events of that day and what followed 107 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.639 didn't emerge in a vacuum. Tensions between Israel and Palestine 108 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:32.960 had been building for years. For decades, Palestinians in Gaza 109 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.919 had lived under a suffocating blockade imposed by both Israel 110 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.600 and Egypt. Over two million people, half of them children, 111 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.080 were packed into an area just twenty five miles long, 112 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:50.559 with limited access to clean water, electricity, medical supplies, or 113 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.080 even the ability to leave. In the months leading up 114 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.879 to the seventh of October, tensions were already boiling Israeli 115 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.200 military raids in the world. The West Bank had become 116 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:05.639 increasingly deadly. Far right ministers were pushing for more aggressive 117 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:10.120 settlement expansion, and settlers had carried out attacks on Palestinian 118 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:16.639 villages with impunity. Gaza, meanwhile, remained isolated and battered, its people, 119 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.720 paying the price for geopolitical deadlock year after year. So 120 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:23.639 when the events of October seventh unfolded, and there was 121 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:27.639 a grim sense among many Palestinians and their supporters that 122 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:31.840 this violence hadn't come from nowhere, It came from decades 123 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.799 of dispossession, from statelessness, from a population repeatedly told that 124 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:41.200 their lives mattered less. But in the West this contact 125 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:46.039 was largely ignored. The dominant narrative was simple, Israel had 126 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.120 been attacked and was defending itself. Any mention of the 127 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:55.279 humanitarian crisis in Gaza or of Palestinians suffering was dismissed 128 00:09:55.279 --> 00:10:00.600 as justification for terror, and that narrative had consequences, especially 129 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:04.879 for Muslim communities in the United States. In the weeks 130 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.840 that followed, American Muslims began experiencing a sharp and terrifying 131 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:12.799 increase in hate. It was a wave of islamphobia that 132 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:16.080 felt earily similar, almost like a replay of the days 133 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.600 after nine to eleven, where anti Muslim hate crames jumped 134 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:25.480 seventeen hundred percent. The Council on American Islamic Relations or 135 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:32.440 c AIR reported record high civil rights complaints. Mosques in California, Texas, 136 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:36.600 and New York were vandalized or threatened. Muslim women wearing 137 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:40.720 he jabs were harassed in public. Students faced bullying or 138 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:45.879 disciplinary action for speaking up about Palestine. Social media was 139 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:50.559 flooded with hate speech, Muslims being called terrorists, accused of 140 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:53.639 supporting Hamas, or told to go back to where they 141 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:56.279 came from. For many, it felt like they had been 142 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:00.639 forced to choose between their safety and their identity. People 143 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:04.399 stopped wearing religious clothing, Parents pulled their kids out of school. 144 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:09.000 Mosques had private security. The fear was real, and it 145 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:13.240 was everywhere and inside the do plex on South Lincoln Highway. 146 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.360 Something had shifted to The warm dynamic between neighbors had 147 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:24.320 grown quieter. There were no confrontations, no accusations, but something 148 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:29.000 unspoken had crept into the home, something heavy. In hindsight, 149 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.320 people look back and wonder if there been any warning signs, 150 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:36.639 any indication that Joseph Suba, the man who once spilt 151 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:40.720 a treehouse for a little boy, had changed, But there 152 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:51.919 hadn't been, at least not yet for Hannah and madea 153 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.440 life inside the duplex for the past two years had 154 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.440 always been peaceful, But in the days following October seventh, 155 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:03.559 that quiet equilibri began to unravel. Joseph, like many had 156 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.720 watched the events unfolding in Israel and Gaza with a 157 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:11.399 mixture of horror and confusion. But where others saw tragedy 158 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:15.799 and complexity, he seemed to see something else. In the 159 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:20.440 weeks that followed, Joseph began listening obsessively to conservative talk radio. 160 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.600 The voices he tuned into didn't just report the news, 161 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.759 they amplified it, distorted it, and then fed it through 162 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.840 a lens of fear. On one particular broadcast, the host 163 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:36.840 spoke urgently about Hamas's so called Day of Jahad, referencing 164 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:38.960 a call by the militant group for a global day 165 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.600 of rage on the thirteenth of October Joseph became fixated 166 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:46.279 on the idea of a violent attack on American soil, 167 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.879 convinced that something catastrophic was imminent. At some point, the 168 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:56.200 fear seemed to curdle into something else, entirely suspicion than hostility. 169 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:59.679 He told his wife Mary that he wanted Hanan and 170 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:04.279 would to leave, no warning, no discussion, just a growing 171 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:08.200 conviction that their presence in the home was now somehow dangerous. 172 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.519 Not long after, Hannan encountered Joseph in the shared kitchen. 173 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.360 At first she assumed it was one of the usual 174 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.720 quiet exchanges, but the look in his eyes was something unfamiliar. 175 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:24.399 He had a cold and intense stare, and then he snapped, 176 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.919 you people are killing Jewish people and babies in Israel. 177 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:32.159 Muslims are not welcome here, not in my home. The 178 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.960 words hit her like a punch to the chest, and 179 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.279 Am was stunned, not just by the vitriol, but by 180 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:41.440 how sudden it was. This was the man who had 181 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.240 once built her son a tree house, who had made 182 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:47.120 space in his home and his life for both of them, 183 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:49.919 and now he was looking at her like she was 184 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:54.000 the enemy. Shaking, Hanan reached out to Mary and relayed 185 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.919 the disturbing interaction. Mary, to her credit, was apologetic and firm. 186 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.679 She told that she and Woodea were still welcome, that 187 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:06.919 Joseph's outburst didn't reflect her own feelings. I was angry 188 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:09.399 that he was even asking her to move out, Mary 189 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.399 would later recall. But the apology did not undo what 190 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.879 had been said, and it certainly didn't stop what was coming. 191 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.679 The fear in Joseph Zuba had begun to take on 192 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:23.080 a life of its own, fading on every news segment, 193 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:28.679 every social media rumor, every conspiracy whisper he absorbed from 194 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:33.360 the talk shows. October thirteenth came and went without violence. 195 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.960 But for Joseph, the absence of danger didn't bring relief. 196 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:41.080 It only seemed to confirm his belief that something worse 197 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:48.120 was looming. He became increasingly agitated, increasingly irrational. At one point, 198 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.120 he insisted they withdraw one thousand dollars in cash from 199 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.600 the bank. He told Mary they needed it on hand 200 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.679 in case the us porgrid was taken down. It wasn't 201 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:05.879 just fear anymore. It was paranoia, and it was spiraling fast. 202 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:15.000 It was Sunday morning on October fourteenth, twenty twenty three 203 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:17.840 for Hanan and her six year old son, Wadea. It 204 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:20.519 began like so many other quiet mornings in their home. 205 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.399 They had breakfast together, easing into the rhythm of their 206 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:27.879 weekend routine. It was a kind of morning where nothing 207 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:32.279 seemed out of place, the warning signs, no indication that 208 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.679 within moments, the world as Hanan knew it would come 209 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.399 crashing down. She was in the bathroom with Wodea, getting 210 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.879 ready to give him a shower, when the cam was 211 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:45.240 shattered by the sound of loud, angry banging on the 212 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:50.000 bedroom door. The clock read just past eleven thirty am. 213 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.840 Confused and startled, Hanan stepped out to see what was 214 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:57.840 going on. When she opened the door, Joseph Zuba was 215 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:00.480 standing on the other side, and before or she could 216 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:04.399 say a word, he forced his way inside. I told 217 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:08.600 you to move out, he screamed, his voice filled with rage, 218 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:12.240 and Anne tried to diffuse the situation. She told him 219 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:14.600 they were getting ready for the day. She was just 220 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.000 trying to give her son a shower, but he wasn't listening. 221 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.440 He followed her inside the room, the fury in his 222 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.600 voice mounting. He then spat at her, You people are 223 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.080 killing Jewish babies in Israel, and you're doing nothing about it. 224 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.159 And Anne's voice trembled. She looked at the man who 225 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.480 had once been kind to her son and said, pray 226 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:40.440 for peace. But those words only seemed to enrage him more. 227 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.240 You Muslims must die, he screamed. He shoved an hand 228 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.960 with such force that she fell backwards. Before she could 229 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.679 scramble to her feet, Zuba was on top of her. 230 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.759 He gripped her neck, trying to choke her, his hands 231 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:59.039 finding her jaw as he pulled and pressed with violent strength. 232 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.639 And then she saw it, a flash of silver, a 233 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.079 blade drawn from a holder on his belt. And then 234 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.799 the stabbing began, and Anne fought with everything she had. 235 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.759 She tried to shield her body as the knife tore 236 00:17:13.880 --> 00:17:18.079 through her skin, her arms, her chest, her face. The 237 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:23.319 pain was blinding, but the will to survive was stronger. Somehow, 238 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.359 through the chaos, she managed to knock the knife from 239 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.079 Joseph Zupa's hand. She grabbed it from the floor and 240 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.720 turned it on him. In that split second, she was 241 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.559 fighting not just for her life but for her son's. 242 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:40.960 But Joseph was stronger. He wrestled the blade back from 243 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.880 her and resumed the attack. Standing in the doorway was 244 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:49.279 little Bodea, his wide, innocent eyes frozen in horror as 245 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.559 he watched the man he had once trusted assault his 246 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:55.440 mother with a knife. Joseph then turned and looked at him. 247 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:59.519 He said, with an eerily calm voice, but I will 248 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:02.400 take care of you. I'll raise you. You will grow 249 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.279 up with me. And Mary, don't tell people I killed 250 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:12.599 your mom. And then as suddenly as it started, the 251 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:17.240 attack stopped. Joseph stood up and left the room, bloodied 252 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.480 and gasping for breath, and Anne somehow pulled herself off 253 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:25.240 the floor. She stumbled towards the bathroom, clutching her cellphone 254 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:29.079 with shaking hands, and locked the door behind her. She 255 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.960 dialed nine one one and told the despatch what had happened. 256 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:36.839 But then came the banging. Joseph was back. He was 257 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:40.359 pointing on the bathroom door, and then she heard it, 258 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.880 a scream, shrill, piercing, filled with terror. It was coming 259 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:50.119 from another room. It was Withdea and then his voice, 260 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:54.559 high and panicked, called out, oh no, and Anne screamed 261 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:59.200 into the phone, her voice breaking with desperation. The landlord 262 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:02.079 is killing me in my baby, He's killing my baby 263 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:03.039 in another room. 264 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:05.799 Yeah, we haven't. The collar on the line is claiming 265 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:07.599 that the mother of this child, we're still trying to 266 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.640 get her language caer harm. That the child is six 267 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:16.880 years old. One A one held Lincoln Highway. The females 268 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:20.599 claiming that the landlord has the child in another room 269 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:23.400 and apparently is either standing or had it down to 270 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:23.960 the child. 271 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.799 Police and paramedics were on the scene within a matter 272 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:36.720 of minutes. They entered the home with urgency, following a 273 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.640 trail of blood that led them down the narrow hallway 274 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:44.359 to the bathroom door. Ann was still inside, still clutching 275 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.599 the phone, still on the line with the nine one 276 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:50.960 one operator. She hadn't dared move. I'm too scared to 277 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:54.400 do anything, She told them. She thought that she was dying. 278 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:57.640 When officers finally reached her, they found her in a 279 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.839 state of shock. Her face was covered in blood, her 280 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:06.640 voice was barely audible. She'd been stabbed repeatedly in the chest, 281 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:10.359 the mouth, the neck, and across her cheek near her eye. 282 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:13.319 The pain, the trauma, and the fear, none of it 283 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.960 had caught up with her. Yet she was frozen. 284 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.680 Is there a baby in my baby? Wasn't there. This 285 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:29.880 room is in the room of the man. So many 286 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.119 seat there's the baby. 287 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:38.240 Yet you guys got the baby. 288 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:44.240 As paramedics tended to her wounds, others began searching the apartment. 289 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.759 In one of the bedrooms, paramedic Brandon Vanowski made a 290 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:53.440 devastating discovery. There, on the small bed he had slept 291 00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:56.200 in the night before, lay six year old with dear. 292 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:01.400 He was surrounded by blood. Twelve inch military style serrated 293 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:05.440 knife was still embedded in his abdomen. All around it 294 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:10.319 were wounds. There were twenty six in total. The paramedic 295 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:13.559 rushed to his side, desperately checking for a pulse, but 296 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:17.759 there was none. Still, he moved quickly. He didn't dare 297 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:21.319 remove the knife it might cause further damage, but he 298 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:25.680 wrapped it gently and gauze to stabilize it. Outside another 299 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:29.240 officer found Joseph Zuba lying on the ground in front 300 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:34.039 of the house. He wasn't unconscious, he was waiting When 301 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:37.960 officers approached. He sat up slowly. His hands and clothing 302 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:41.200 were soaked in blood, and around him were pocket knives. 303 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:46.319 On his waist was an empty knife holster. It matched 304 00:21:46.319 --> 00:21:50.720 the knife found embedded in Wodea's stomach. He was arrested 305 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.920 on the spot. Both an Anna and Wodea were carried 306 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.920 from the home on stretchers, paramedics working frantically as they 307 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:02.119 were loaded into ambulances. Sirens wailed as they raced towards 308 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:05.200 the hospital, but it quickly became clear that only one 309 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:09.319 of them would make it. Hannan, although gravely injured, was 310 00:22:09.359 --> 00:22:12.519 expected to survive. She had fought for her life and 311 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:15.319 in doing so, had survived a brutal attack that might 312 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:19.480 have easily killed her. But what day was different. The 313 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:23.920 knife wounds had cut deep through tissue, muscle, and organs. 314 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:28.559 His heart had been stabbed multiple times. By the time 315 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.920 the ambulance reached the hospital, there was nothing left to 316 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:36.960 be done. Just days after celebrating his sixth birthday, woude 317 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:40.880 At al Fayoum was pronounced dead. He had been stabbed 318 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:43.200 twenty six times by the man who once built him 319 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:46.400 a tree house, who brought him toys, who told him 320 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.559 he'd take care of him. As for Joseph Zuba, he 321 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:53.559 was transported to the Will County Sheriff's office. Along the 322 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:56.680 way he began to speak. He told the officer driving 323 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:00.279 the vehicle that Hanan had been a trained fighter, that 324 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:04.240 she had attacked him first. He rambled about being in danger. 325 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:09.039 They were just like infested rats. He said, I was 326 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.119 afraid for my life. I was afraid for my wife. 327 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.640 I was afraid they were going to do ge hat 328 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:32.720 on me. Joseph Zubo's arrested and formally charged with first 329 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:36.319 degree murder, attempted first degree murder, took counts of a 330 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:40.440 hate crime, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. In 331 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.200 the days following the attack, the will County Sheriff's Office 332 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:48.400 released a statement confirming what many already feared. Detectives were 333 00:23:48.440 --> 00:23:51.000 able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack 334 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:54.440 were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim 335 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:58.559 and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving her math in 336 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:05.519 the Israelise. 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The killing of six year old 387 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:59.480 Widea al Fayume reverberated far beyond the quiet suburb of 388 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:05.000 playing Fie, Illinois. It made international headlines. His name appeared 389 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.079 on banners and candlelight vigils across the world. His face 390 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:12.640 became a symbol of something bigger, the innocent lives caught 391 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.160 in the violent wake of global conflict and rising bigotry. 392 00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:20.319 Ahmed Rehab, the executive director of c ai or Chicago, 393 00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:23.400 spoke to a say of mourners and reporters and said 394 00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.839 they were not only attacked for their personal identities, but 395 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:30.839 for their ethnic and religious identities that we all share. 396 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:34.319 They were picked almost randomly to represent all of us, 397 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:37.880 and so in that sense, we were all stabbed, we 398 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:41.960 were all wounded, we were all killed. 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