They specifically went out looking for a white kid to kill, which is an important detail. This wasnt a robbery gone bad, or some kind of stupid teenage posturing. This was a group of africans in france going out to intentionally kill a french person, and they did.
@Jringo1508 Hey, John may be ugly, he may be a bit too far left politically to suit me. ;-)
None the less he does tell tales well, most of which are available from a small less known publishing house, I'm happy to say, Baen, as well as the massive near monopolistic Amazon.