{"id":1886,"date":"2025-05-29T01:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captainnews.info\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2025-05-29T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:15:13","slug":"inside-the-tragic-murder-of-yusuf-hawkins-at-the-hands-of-a-white-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captainnews.info\/?p=1886","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Tragic Murder Of Yusuf Hawkins At The Hands Of A White Mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"dek\">On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot after being chased by up to 30 white youths in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dropcaps\">In 1989, a Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins was gunned down in a racist attack while walking in the predominantly white neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. A gang of white teenagers ambushed Hawkins following rumors that a teenage girl in the neighborhood was bringing Black and Hispanic friends over.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288242 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins.jpg 800w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-768x654.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Yusuf Hawkins\" width=\"800\" height=\"681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288242\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Storm Over Brooklyn\/Instagram<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Sixteen-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death by a white mob in Brooklyn in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0described the killing as \u201cthe gravest racial incident in New York City\u201d since the Howard Beach attack in Queens in 1986. The Howard Beach case was a separate hate crime that saw one Black man killed and another injured by a group of white youths. The attack had spawned public outrage in the city just a few years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>This is the true story behind Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 hate-fueled murder.<\/p>\n<h2>The Murder Of Yusuf Hawkins<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_288243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288243 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-childhood-photo.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-childhood-photo.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-childhood-photo-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-childhood-photo-768x607.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Young Yusuf Hawkins\" width=\"900\" height=\"711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288243\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Storm Over Brooklyn\/Instagram<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Yusuf Hawkins (left) grew up in East New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yusuf Hawkins (sometimes spelled Yusef Hawkins) was a 16-year-old from Brooklyn who lived in the East New York neighborhood with his parents. The teenager was described as an intelligent young man with a bright future who had recently been accepted to a technical high school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CPXmvKi_x40DFf_IFgUd6ZI31w\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1017773\/ATIInline_1__container__\">\n<p>\u201cHe was reaching his goals,\u201d his father Moses J. Stewart told the radio station\u00a0<em>WLIB<\/em>. \u201cHe was putting his dreams behind him because he was achieving his task.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On August 23, 1989, at about 9 p.m., Hawkins and his friends Troy, Claude, and Luther, who were all Black, got off the N train at 20th Avenue and 64th Street. The friends were on their way to meet the owner of a 1982 Pontiac at 1965 Bay Ridge Avenue, where Troy was planning to buy the car.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_288252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288252 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-in-yusuf-hawkins-death.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-in-yusuf-hawkins-death.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-in-yusuf-hawkins-death-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-in-yusuf-hawkins-death-768x509.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Protest After Yusuf Hawkins Death\" width=\"900\" height=\"596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288252\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Mark Hinojosa\/Newsday RM via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Demonstrators erect a sign reading, \u201cWe declare this Yusuf Square, civil rights or civil war!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The group stopped to buy some items from a candy store before continuing their walk south on 20th Avenue. Meanwhile, trouble was brewing on the neighborhood block that Hawkins was approaching.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNXlza-_x40DFYRXDwIdwOwC-g\">\n<p>A group of white youths were gathering in front of a four-story apartment house at 6801 20th Avenue. It was the home of 18-year-old Gina Feliciano, who was reportedly expecting Black and Hispanic friends to come over on her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Some sources reported that Feliciano, who had a Puerto Rican father, was dating Black and Hispanic men, and refused to date one of the white men in the mob. Other accounts alleged that Feliciano told some of the white men that she was going to bring her Black and Hispanic friends to the neighborhood to fight them.<\/p>\n<p>That night, there were up to 30 white people waiting outside her home, some of whom were armed with baseball bats. And they apparently mistook Hawkins and his friends for Feliciano\u2019s party guests.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_288263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288263 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkins-funeral.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkins-funeral.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkins-funeral-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkins-funeral-768x510.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Yusuf Hawkins Funeral\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288263\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Robert Rosamilio\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">More than 300 people attended the slain teenager\u2019s funeral at Glover Memorial Baptist Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-2\" data-google-query-id=\"CITQrby_x40DFWfyTAIdWCUCtA\">\n<p>Witness accounts reported\u00a0that the white mob members were \u201ctalking and bragging\u201d as Hawkins and his friends walked by. At least one account mentioned someone saying a racial slur to the Black boys.<\/p>\n<p>According to Deputy Police Commissioner for Public Information Alice T. McGillion, witnesses overheard someone yell, \u201cLet\u2019s club the n*gger.\u201d Someone else responded, \u201cNo, let\u2019s not club, let\u2019s shoot one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One witness heard, \u201cLet\u2019s get even with Gina,\u201d and \u201cLet\u2019s show Gina,\u201d clearly referring to Feliciano. Before long, gunshots rang through the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<h2>Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 Last Moments<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_288254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288254 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-parents.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-parents.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-parents-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-parents-768x530.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Yusuf Hawkins Parents\" width=\"900\" height=\"621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288254\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Nicole Bengiveno\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 parents, Moses Stewart and Diane Hawkins, grieve over their slain son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One resident, 32-year-old Elizabeth Galarza, came running outside after she heard the gunshots at about 9:20 p.m. She found Yusuf Hawkins on the ground, still clutching a candy bar from his earlier shopping trip.<\/p>\n<p>Trained in CPR, Galarza checked for the teenager\u2019s pulse. While he was conscious at first, he couldn\u2019t talk. Galarza pulled up his t-shirt and saw two bullet holes in his chest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288260 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-murder-protester-arrested.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-murder-protester-arrested.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-murder-protester-arrested-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-murder-protester-arrested-768x519.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Protestors In Brooklyn\" width=\"900\" height=\"608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288260\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Clarence Sheppard\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Nearly 300 demonstrators marched through Bensonhurst after Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young boy clenched my hand,\u201d Galarza said. \u201cWhen his pulse stopped, he clenched tight and let go. He was so young and so frightened. I said, \u2018Come on baby. You\u2019ll be fine. Take small breaths. Just relax. God\u2019s with you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Galarza, it took police 15 minutes to arrive on the scene after she called 911. Hawkins was later pronounced dead on arrival at Maimonides Medical Center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_288253\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288253 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gina-feliciano.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gina-feliciano.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gina-feliciano-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gina-feliciano-768x486.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Gina Feliciano\" width=\"900\" height=\"570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288253\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Jonathan Fine\/Newsday RM via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Police suspected a jealous lover of Gina Feliciano (pictured) caused Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 death, but many others saw it as a clear hate crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police investigators recovered a bevy of baseball bats at nearby sites but said none of them had been used. They found four shells from a .32-caliber semiautomatic pistol, two of which struck and killed Yusuf Hawkins. His friends all survived the terrifying attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CNbOmNW_x40DFVXfTAIdzYEnyg\">Feliciano later told police that she had watched the mob gather outside her home. She said one of them showed her a gun and warned, \u201cYou better watch yourself with your n*gger friends.\u201d After the shooting, Feliciano went to a telephone booth and called the police.<\/div>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CNbOmNW_x40DFVXfTAIdzYEnyg\">\n<h2>Protests In Brooklyn<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_288269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288269 post-img-portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/police-during-protests.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/police-during-protests.jpg 600w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/police-during-protests-207x300.jpg 207w\" alt=\"Police During The Protests\" width=\"600\" height=\"869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288269\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Gerald Herbert\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Multiple protests occurred in the months after Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo see my son\u2019s life wasted,\u201d Stewart said, \u201cbecause of some indiscriminatory fool with a gun in his hands who saw nothing but a Black man is a very, very vile thing to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He asked, \u201cWho will pay for this? Who will pay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawkins\u2019 death was a watershed moment in the racial reckoning of New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A few days after Hawkins\u2019 murder, a crowd of 300 demonstrators marched through Bensonhurst in his name.<\/p>\n<p>They were\u00a0met with jeers and racist chants\u00a0from white onlookers as they marched through Bensonhurst.<\/p>\n<p>Chants of \u201cN*ggers go home\u201d and other racist theatrics were lobbed at protesters, including chants of \u201cCentral Park, Central Park,\u201d a reference to the rape of a white woman months prior, which saw five Black and Hispanic youths\u00a0wrongfully convicted\u00a0of the crime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-7\" data-google-query-id=\"CJau4OC_x40DFUqI6QUdqNkXjw\">\n<div id=\"attachment_288273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288273 post-img-portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/counter-protester.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/counter-protester.jpg 600w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/counter-protester-212x300.jpg 212w\" alt=\"Counter Protesters\" width=\"600\" height=\"849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288273\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Ken Murray\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">Demonstrators in the march through Bensonhurst drew ire from white residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More than 1,000 people showed up to pay their respects at Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 funeral. While about 300 people attended the service at Glover Memorial Baptist Church, countless more stood outside singing hymns.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple marches were orchestrated in his name during the murder trial. As the white residents in Bensonhurst continued to taunt the protestors, violence sometimes broke out.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 12, 1991, the Rev. Al Sharpton was stabbed in the chest with a steak knife as he prepared to protest. While he was in stable condition, the knife just barely missed his lung. Sharpton later described this moment as a turning point: \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized I was willing to die for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In total, eight people faced charges stemming from the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. But only five were convicted: Joseph Fama, Keith Mondello, John S. Vento, Pasquale Raucci, and Joseph Serrano. Only three of them \u2014 18-year-old Fama, 19-year-old Mondello, and Vento \u2014 received jail time.<\/p>\n<p>And only one of them \u2014 Fama \u2014 was convicted of murder. Ultimately, he was found guilty of second-degree murder by acting with depraved indifference.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_288270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288270 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-burn-flag.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-burn-flag.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-burn-flag-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/protesters-burn-flag-768x505.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Protesters Burn The Flag\" width=\"900\" height=\"592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288270\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Misha Erwitt\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">A group of demonstrators burn the American flag after the Keith Mondello verdict, which acquitted him of murder but convicted him of lesser charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The court decisions were criticized by community leaders and Hawkins\u2019 family, and remained a source of pain for those who knew the teenager decades after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe more people should have been locked up and put behind bars,\u201d said his mother Diane Hawkins in 2009.<\/p>\n<h2>Long-Lasting Scars From His Death<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_288274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288274 post-img-landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-mural.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-mural.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-mural-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/yusuf-hawkins-mural-768x512.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Yusuf Hawkins Mural\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288274\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-288274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Spencer Platt\/Getty Images<\/span><span class=\"caption-body\">A graffiti memorial in memory of Yusuf Hawkins, painted in Brooklyn in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>New York City is widely considered a mecca of diversity, but it also has a history rife with racial violence. The 1990s were undoubtedly bloody years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-10\" data-google-query-id=\"CNiBtv6_x40DFZFfDwIdQUgSjQ\">\n<p>In 1991, the Crown Heights riots\u00a0erupted in Brooklyn\u00a0after two Black children were accidentally run down by a motorcade connected to the Hasidic Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>One child died and the other was severely injured. The incident sparked a three-day clash between Black and Hasidic Jewish residents, killing at least one Jewish person and injuring others from both sides of the divide.<\/p>\n<p>As for Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 murder, the hate crime has been highlighted by African American artists through film, television, and music as a stark reminder of the Black lives lost to violent acts of racism. In 1991, director Spike Lee dedicated his film\u00a0<em>Jungle Fever<\/em>\u00a0to the slain teenager.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, an HBO documentary about Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 murder was released under the title\u00a0<em>Storm Over Brooklyn<\/em>. Meanwhile, a mural dedicated in his memory was recently restored in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.<\/p>\n<p>As for the perpetrators in Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 killing, at least some of them still live in New York City. Mondello, who was released in 1998 and currently resides in Staten Island, admitted shame for his role in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat kid was shot for no reason at all. It was completely senseless,\u201d Mondello said in 2014. \u201cDid I know that then? Yes. I know it even more now. I would do anything to give Yusuf Hawkins his life back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fama, the one who was convicted of second-degree murder, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Currently, he is still being held at the Clinton Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Dannemora, New York. He will be eligible for parole in 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pbh-lazy-inline pbh_inline\" data-loader=\"revLoader\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1748480948097-12\" data-google-query-id=\"COK6mIjAx40DFQhXDwIdKssbRg\">\n<p>But nothing could ever ease the pain after Yusuf Hawkins\u2019 murder, which is\u00a0still felt by long-time residents of Brooklyn. For his mother, the grief from her son\u2019s murder will likely never dissipate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy scar will never heal until the day I die,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to take it to my grave.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot after being chased by up to 30 white youths in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 1989, a Black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins was gunned down in a racist attack while walking in the predominantly white neighborhood of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. 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