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Main motive: crazy ex.
Mental health: disturbed af.
Living situation: in a trailer park with a son before 18.

Now it might well be that the killer was extremely angry and wanted to hurt the new boyfriend as much as possible, resorting to call him a n(because it's the most offensive thing you can say in that sitution). However I'd not be surprised if the dude was racist. Crazy (litterally, he shot his ex's new bf) trailer park folk with babies as a teenagers don't seem to be the biggest fans of black people.
So hate crime? I doubt it. I think the killer would've been rougly as upset with the mew boyfriend if he was white, maybe just some extra salt in the wound because he thinks white people are better than black people. That would make him a racist but that doesn't mean it's necessarily a hate crime, because the main motive is still the crazy ex thing, if the other guy would've been white he would probably still have shot him.

Also, this whole story is just extremely tragic. A girl with a baby at 16 is always quite difficult but when you live in the lower tiers of the us' society and also have that crazy ex in the mix it's almost impossible to stay sane.
This girl was very lucky see found a new guy that was willing to look past the problems that a son might have on his life and by the looks of the photos they both seemed genuinely happy and doing ok in terms of money etc (as far as I can tell from the photos supplied). So this girl managed to turn her life from shit to on track again and this fool who has probably been harrasing her ever since he left her just decides to fuck it all up again, leaving the girl, and HIS son, lets not forget about that, in a terrible situation and traumatised for life.
Hate crime or not, this guy is a terrible human being.