A Year in the Park reports on last week’s murder at Lookout Hill in Prospect Park. Here’s an excerpt. Go to her blog for pictures. The story hasn’t gotten much coverage. Nor have the police found his killer or a motive for this mysterious death.

A man beaten to death in Prospect Park has been identified, but his killer and the motive for his death remain a mystery.

Mohammed Afzaf, 41, was found with a massive head wound in a wooded area near a jogging path on Wednesday, police said.

The medical examiner said Thursday that his death was a homicide.

Afzaf suffered from mental illness and had spent time in a hospital being treated, said his imam, Abdul Rashid. He had been homeless for six months, a former employer said.

This sketchy report raises more questions than it answers. For one thing, the man’s name may be wrong; “Afzaf” is virtually a “Googlenope” (writer Gene Weingarten’s neologism for a search term that comes up empty), whereas “Afzal” is apparently a common name, particularly in connection with Pakistanis.

Nearby, the swans were unruffled. Poor Mr. A, no wonder they took no notice. Homeless, mentally ill, and Muslim: victim-wise, that’s hitting the trifecta for media apathy. Imagine if it had been a young, blonde female Episcopalian—an out-of-work actress, perhaps—whose body lay up on the hill for two days. Even the swans would have wept and demanded big headlines, heart-rending sidebars, and frequent updates on the hunt for the killer.