Having known many Africaan American friends who grew up in much tougher ghettos in Wilmington, NC, I find it insulting and racist to use that as any excuse to choose to go out and stalk people to rob which ends up in a violent, senseless death. You are in control of your own future and to imply otherwise is insulting. Your poor victim of a hoodlum could have backed out after the couple woke up and they left the Forest Hills neighborhood. He could have backed out after the woman went in the yard realizing she was being stalked like some sort of human prey. He chose to continue and he needs to get off of the streets and behind bars for the rest of his life.