police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing
) A0 B6 v) M/ ~ 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.3 H3 E- X/ [* h0 d6 u
anthony 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/ R8 e) H' ?, Y/ o
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.
$ J* r* C; m, z r/ X1 g4 w5 c 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.- D% d% y1 _ S6 k+ n6 D
no arrests had been made in the attack.
0 Q9 }9 J+ p( Z "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.6 ?) V+ D/ |* c1 Y' F( k, `
police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently. |