Deon J. Hampton is a national reporter for NBC News.
PALOS HEIGHTS, Illinois — Hours after the 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who was allegedly killed at the hands of a landlord was buried, family and friends retreated to a quiet diner to look back fondly on a once promising life cut short. Wadea Al-Fayoume was remembered Monday evening as a happy child, full of life and spunk, who had grown close to the neighbor and landlord who now stands accused of attacking him and his mother in a hate crime.
executive director Ahmed Rehab said the boy's father told him that they came to the U.S. in part to escape violence. 'He said, ‘Part of the reason we came here was to escape the settler violence in which situations like this could occur with impunity and it chased us all the way to the United States,’” Rehab said Sunday. As Aly spoke, Odey Al-Fayoume sat at the head of the next table in the middle of the room hugging loved ones and embracing others.
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