NEW YORK TIMES: 6-Year-Old Boy Fatally Stabbed in Anti-Muslim Attack, Authorities Say

Yousef Hannon, the uncle of a 6-year-old boy killed in Plainfield Township, Ill., spoke at a news conference at the Muslim Community Center in Chicago.Credit...Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

By Johnny Diaz, Mitch Smith and Robert Chiarito - Mitch Smith reported from Chicago. Robert Chiarito reported from Chicago and Plainfield Township, Ill.

On Sunday, the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, denounced the stabbing and called it “our worst nightmare.”

Our hearts are heavy, and our prayers are with the darling boy and his mother,” Ahmed Rehab, the executive director of CAIR-Chicago, said in a statement.