Dutton, on the other hand, looked like he was writing a great political comeback - he was on the edge of bringing his party from its worst loss in 70 years back into office in a single term.
Earlier on Thursday, the FBI searched a Chicago property linked to the suspect.Outside the apartment, neighbour John Wayne Fry told reporters that he had lived in the same apartment building as the suspect for around a year.
He said that the suspect displayed a photo outside his flat of a Palestinian-American child who was stabbed to death outside Chicago in 2023.The killing caused international headlines. The man who killed six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi was convicted of hate crime charges earlier this month. Officials say he was motivated by hatred for Islam and the conflict in Gaza.It is unclear whether the suspect has had any direct contact with the boy's family.
Fry said that he hadn't talked with the suspect about politics, but said "If I had, I would have talked him out of it."The suspect had been working at the American Osteopathic Information Association since 2024, according to online records examined by BBC Verify.
Social media accounts belonging to him indicate that he was heavily involved in the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
An online story indicated that he was associated with a fringe communist group, The Party for Socialism and Liberation, in 2017, and had been interviewed as a member of the group.to follow the world's top tech stories and trends.
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