In America’s Newspaper of Record this morning (p.11 of the print edition), one of those stories that, if read by a visiting Martian, would deliver only half the necessary information:

A Brooklyn high school student was fatally shot on a crowded subway train yesterday by a rival gang member after both had spent the day on the beach, a police source said. Both the shooter and the victim, Trevle Belton, 19, were among 5,000 people who jammed Manhattan Beach yesterday, but it was not known if they had encountered each other there. Manhattan Beach has been embroiled in controversy over how to handle crowds descending on the beach and the ritzy area surrounding it. Belton was returning from the beach yesterday in a subway car jammed with other teens at the time of the shooting at 6:53 p.m….The violence comes amid heated debate about the future of Manhattan Beach after Ronald Biondo, president of Manhattan Beach Community Group, wrote an e-mail to members calling for increased law enforcement and metal detectors to screen beachgoers. It likened young beachgoers to ‘thugs.’ Biondo later apologized and backed off a proposal to, in effect, privatize the beach. An investigator told The Post that a local radio station had encouraged listeners to swamp the beach yesterday to protest Biondo’s statements. Many city high school students also came to celebrate the last day of school…

The victim (it says in the earlier, print, edition) was a student at Samuel J. Tilden HS. Reading stories like this, I have got into the habit of checking the GreatSchools database for student ethnicity breakdown. Here’s the answer for Samuel J. Tilden HS. Boy, that school-integration thing worked out great, didn’t it? Thank goodness for Brown v. Board of Ed.!