The Nation - News from Aug. 27, 1989

A citywide manhunt for the gunman who killed a black teen-ager in a white neighborhood continued in New York as five other suspects in the racial attack were arraigned. Teams of detectives were responding to tips all over the city, a police spokesman said. The other suspects were arraigned on charges stemming from the Wednesday night shooting in which Yusef Hawkins, 16, was killed. Four of the suspects were held on $75,000 bail each. The fifth, identified by an assistant district attorney as “the instigator and the organizer” of the gang, was ordered held on $100,000 bail. Hawkins and three friends were set upon by a gang of neighborhood whites carrying baseball bats, 2-by-4s and golf clubs when they arrived in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst section to answer a used car ad. Police said the gang was angered by a local white girl’s dating of a black youth.