Claim: 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.
Evidence: 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