Police charged a 71-year-old suburban man Sunday with a hate for fatally stabbing a 6-year-old boy and seriously wounding his 32-year-old mother, in a crime where local authorities believe the killer was influenced by the Israel-Hamas war.'Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the on-going Middle Eastern conflict involving and the Israelis,' the Will County Sheriff's Office said in a statement posted to social media.Officers found both victims late Saturday morning at a home in an unincorporated area of Plainfield Township, roughly 40 miles southwest of Chicago.
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