Complex sentence: According to police, the youths interpreted this remark as an anti-Semitic statement, waited until the store closed, and then attacked Bourarach; they were described by eyewitnesses as attempting to "settle the score" with him.
Split into simpler sentences: According to police, the youths interpreted this remark as an anti-Semitic statement, waited until the store closed, and then attacked Bourarach. They were described by eyewitnesses as attempting to "settle the score" with him.