Overview

• Hanaan Shahin, the mother of a 6-year-old boy murdered in an alleged anti-Muslim hate crime, has been released from the hospital and urges peace in her first public statement.
• The accused attacker, Joseph Czuba, their landlord, has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, two counts of hate crime, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
• According to authorities, the attack was driven by Czuba's anger towards the Israel-Hamas conflict, targeting Shahin and her son because of their Islamic faith.
• Shahin, who works as a caregiver for seniors, remembers her son Wadea as her best friend, an intelligent and funny boy who had a caring nature for the planet and liked to join her in prayers.
• Despite her trauma, Shahin is making a speedy recovery, stunning her medical attendants; she credits her recovery to 'God hearing the prayers of people out there'.
• She harbors no anger about the attack, instead prays for peace and justice, and finds solace in remembering her son as an 'angel on earth, now an angel in heaven'.