India, July 28 -- Joseph Czuba, a landlord who was serving a 53-year prison sentence for killing a Palestinian American boy and stabbing his mother, has died in custody.

He died Thursday in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections, according to the Will County Sheriff's Office, according to New York post report.

Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder, and hate crime charges for an attack that killed 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi and injured his mother, Hanan Shaheen in October 2023.

Prosecutors said Czuba targeted the family because they were Muslim and that he was upset over the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which had broken out just days earlier. The family was renting rooms in Czuba's P...