police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing
5 N( [* c8 i3 Z2 c6 |0 c } 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. L9 a, d$ i# ]0 V# t# l& `' ^# A
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.5 V' J3 u/ O' Z. `
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 G' |' i3 S4 x4 Q% Z! |; k! [
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 R7 V' m$ }5 }
no arrests had been made in the attack.
. p7 ^1 }4 ]% k% `9 \0 l6 Q# x7 X "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.
+ m- t0 q$ N% P police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently. |