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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.
4 z6 _9 r5 G, [6 _ 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.0 D' `% j# r$ @0 {( B- t
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.1 [) w' G- a! L9 X! Z' n
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.0 P0 I% l1 R+ G3 Y$ Z* U
No arrests had been made in the attack.& Y p3 x! k8 d' ~( M* [# A+ x# D# u
"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.
2 p# Z4 l9 y) n O8 T1 @. h Police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently |