1) Alabama has criminal conspiracy and complicity laws which seem at first glance to me to make conspirators and accomplices participants in whatever crime they are conspiring to commit. You might want to try to make sense of it HERE.
2) I am uncertain what is meant in Alabama law by "causes the death of any person." Who caused the young thug's death? Was it his intended victim, his accomplices, or both?
I haven’t seen hate crime come up. Guess it only works certain ways...