The murder of Yusef Hawkins, a student, occurred on August 23, 1989 in Brooklyn, New York after he and three friends were attacked by a crowd of 10 to 30 white youths.
Student Murder victim August 23, 1989 (1989-08-24) (aged 16)
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, United States Hawkins and three friends were attacked by a crowd of 10 to 30 white youths, with at least seven of them wielding baseball bats. 
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins, March 19, 1973  August 23, 1989) was a 16-year-old black teenager from East New York, Brooklyn who was shot to death on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Hawkins and three friends were attacked by a crowd of 10 to 30 white youths, with at least seven of them wielding baseball bats. Student 
