You may not remember Wadiya al-Fayumi's name, but I guarantee you, you remember his story.

You first heard about him in October.

The war in Gaza had just started.

There'd been one image after another coming of image here at

kind of image here at home.

This is one of the last pictures taken of Wadiya al-Fayumi who just a couple of weeks ago celebrated his sixth birthday.

His life was brutally taken away yesterday morning at his home in unincorporated

Plainfield after he was stabbed 26 times

with a military style knife.

71 year old Joseph Chuba was accused of stabbing the boy and his mother for their Muslim faith.

Or authorities say the landlord knocked on their door and before the attack said that they should die for their beliefs.

Whether you scrolled past an article about that they should die for their beliefs.

Whether you scrolled past an article about Wadiya online, or came across a news report,

most every story was accompanied by the same picture

of Wadiya in a paper party hat and a plaid shirt.

It looked like he'd just unwrapped a stack of presents.

This picture, it stopped Slates Aaman Ismail in his tracks.

Yeah, what happened to Wadia is particularly heartbreaking because there's this expectation that in this country were relatively safe, and now it feels like the threat of death was real here in America.

Aeman's a dad, a Muslim too.

Pretty much right away he started wondering about Wadiya, who he was, how he died so young.

But Wadiya's story soon got drowned out by so many other tragedies.

The news cycle at that point was moving so quickly that it almost felt like, okay, that was horrifying.

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