Sounds like a a typical black and white case of urban black on white, although there is no info in the article to enable drawing a conclusion.
It is an older part of town because the street lights are of the very old style that were installed before I was born there over 50 years ago.
And SINCE there is no information in the article regarding your conjecture,
you can be 99% certain that you are correct.
Whitey the Homeowner “dissed” the black basketball players,
so he deserved to be beaten nearly to death.
Of course, wifey should have been trained with an AR or AK and let fly with a couple of dozen rounds in their vacinity.