This is an excellent point, but it's a wider conversation about society, immigration, misogyny, etc. Not about this particular crime.

I'm strongly in favour of talking about race where it's relevant, but I thnk we've fallen into a habit of focusing on it whether it's relevant or not. Well, I say a habit, but what I mean is, news outlets know that talking about race sells adviertising clicks and so try to shoehorn it in every chance they get.

As in the "defund the police" example, this warps perception of problems to such a degree that it becomes MORE difficult to solve the problems we need to solve because people literally don't know what's true.