The murder of Yusef Hawkins, a student, occurred on August 23, 1989 in Queens, New York.
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. 
August 23, 1989 (1989-08-24) (aged 16)
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, United States 
