police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing 5 S$ L( C! O! d3 ]" ^
a black teenager who was followed through a park by a group of men shouting racist taunts died saturday after an attacker embedded an ax in his skull.
7 [6 _' h e0 @7 ~! \" eanthony walker, 18, was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend and a cousin when a man started shouting racist taunts at them late friday near walker’s home in liverpool, police said. - Y% A2 B+ |' Y0 ^3 n v2 |
the three left to find another bus stop to avoid any trouble, police said. but a group of three or four men followed them through a park, and walker’s companions saw someone bludgeon him with an ax. 7 m# g& G! q, m; e5 ]; @
they ran to get help and returned a few minutes later to find him with the ax embedded in his skull, news reports said. walker died early saturday.
9 r5 ^5 I0 R$ v+ [8 hno arrests had been made in the attack.
" h# z t8 p; P- N3 C- m"what we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated," said detective chief superintendent peter currie, who was leading the investigation.
* ~9 ]( D1 U: ^# M e% `police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently |