Police suspect racial motive in Liverpool ax killing* J, w }! {7 D, G2 P, _
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. , r. s7 b( j$ H0 t, s6 m* _4 z! y
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. - x+ R9 ~8 m* R4 T, {. }+ R
: X% m2 j: S# v% M0 ?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. , I E. J: F- J1 l! Y* u/ s
# S+ S; P m% [: iThey 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.
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, R+ i5 Q- e E! j" _ kNo arrests had been made in the attack. 7 B0 x$ c, K& {" i1 ~
+ C8 ~4 N' {, \; ^$ N% F( D3 l"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 M. Q6 W+ Y( B, K! R* E6 f+ h
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Police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently. |