Samira Puskar
Supervising Producer at NBC News
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke |Mirna Alsharif |Samira Puskar
An Ohio father who fatally struck a deputy with his car after his son was shot and killed by police was denied bond during a chaotic hearing on Tuesday. A judge ordered Rodney L. Hinton to be remanded with no bond in connection with the death of Hamilton County special deputy Larry Henderson. Hinton, who is charged with aggravated murder, pleaded not guilty. Before entering a plea, a commotion erupted outside the courtroom where the hearing was held.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li
JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois man was sentenced on Friday to 30 years behind bars for the racially motivated killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy, whom he fatally stabbed days after the Israel-Hamas war erupted in 2023. Wearing a red jail uniform and appearing thin and frail, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba heard what amounted to a potenital life sentence from Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Samira Puskar
JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois man was sentenced on Friday to 53 years behind bars for the racially motivated killing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and attacking his mom, days after the Israel-Hamas war erupted in 2023. Wearing a red jail uniform and appearing thin and frail, 73-year-old Joseph Czuba appeared before Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak and heard what amounted to a likely life sentence for murder and attempted murder.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li
NowIllinois man sentenced to 53 years for hate crime killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and wounding his motherJoseph Czuba, 73, fatally stabbed Wadee Alfayoumi in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield Township. JOLIET, Ill.
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2 weeks ago |
today.com | Samira Puskar |David K. Li
By and WAUKEGAN, Ill. — The man who opened fire at a Fourth of July parade near Chicago in 2022, killing seven people and leaving behind an “ocean of grief,” will spend the rest of his life behind bars with no possibility of parole, a judge said Thursday. Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III, 24, was a no-show in court Thursday and declined to make a statement to the court, his lawyer said. It did not appear that any relatives of the killer’s family attended the sentencing.
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