KASS, J.
Our principal concern in considering the defendant's appeal is whether the circumstances of the crime for which he was charged were so likely to release the venom of racial prejudice that the trial judge ought to have examined prospective jurors individually about racial bias, as requested by defense counsel. See G.L.c. 234, § 28; Mass.R.Crim.P.
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