The killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy near Chicago in a hate crime

Gone quiet · last story May 2, 2025

What this arc covers

The October 2023 stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American Muslim boy and the wounding of his mother in Plainfield, Illinois, which police called an anti-Muslim hate crime driven by the war: the charges against the family's landlord, the boy's funeral and the mourners in the Palestinian community, Joe Biden's condemnation, the mother's release from the hospital, and the landlord's sentencing in 2025.

Earliest story we hold Oct 15, 2023 · 8 stories · 56 independent sources (counted once each) · 565 days

Where it standsnewest first · each bar runs left to right by leaning

May 22025Illinois landlord sentenced in fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy16 articles · 10 independent sources
4 left, 3 center, 1 right
Oct 162023Plainfield landlord charged with hate crime in stabbing that killed 6-year-old Muslim boy, injured mom5 articles · 5 independent sources
0 left, 3 center, 1 right

Key momentsthe most covered; every story is below

Who covered it, over timeindependent sources per week, by side

Oct 2023Jan 2024May 2024Sep 2024Jan 2025Apr 2025

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Point at or tap a week to see its count by side.

Every week as a table
Week ofLeftCenterRightArticles
Oct 9, 20233217
Oct 16, 202316295122
Oct 23, 20230307
Apr 28, 202543115

Stories before June 28, 2026 come from archived pages, so who covered them is limited to the outlets we recovered for that period.

34% left · 55% center · 11% right of 56 independent sources among the outlets we track, across 8 stories.

Every storyoldest first

  1. October 2023

    Oct 15– 16Man killed Muslim boy and wounded woman in hate crime motivated by Israeli-Hamas war, police say72 articles · 45 independent sources
    12 left, 14 center, 4 right
  2. Oct 166-year-old boy is buried, mother treated after attack that police call an anti-Muslim hate crime5 articles · 5 independent sources
    2 left, 1 center, 0 right
  3. Oct 16– 17Mourners in Palestinian Chicago suburb remember Muslim boy who was killed as kind, energetic38 articles · 23 independent sources
    2 left, 11 center, 0 right
  4. Oct 16Police: Illinois man killed Muslim boy, injured mother in stabbing driven by religious hate8 articles · 2 independent sources
    0 left, 1 center, 1 right
  5. May 2025

    May 2Illinois landlord sentenced in fatal stabbing of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy16 articles · 10 independent sources
    4 left, 3 center, 1 right