Last month, Oday Al-Fayoume took legal action against Discerning Property Management, which employed 71-year-old Joseph Czuba, Mary Czuba, and themselves. The 14th of October was the alleged murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume and significant injury to Joseph Czuba's mother, Hanaan Shahin, by stabbing.
Czuba supposedly expressed to his wife before the attack that he wanted Shahin and Wadea to vacate the house where they had been for two years. Legal documents from November 21 state that he reportedly expressed concern that Shahin's "Palestinian friends" might do harm to the plaintiffs.
Court documents show that Mary Czuba has filed for a divorce from Joseph Czuba, but that the Czubas have not yet retained legal representation in the wrongful death lawsuit.
Not guilty was Joseph Czuba's plea in court in October. Following his grand jury indictment last week, he is now facing accusations of two hate crimes, aggravated violence with a lethal weapon, attempted first-degree murder, and first-degree murder.