police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing* U2 L p* k# B' B" f
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.
L7 ~1 K- y' J" m% J7 r7 c 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.
3 c K$ _( @" D# P; ? H+ C8 V 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.; h% W- Q# j) X% f0 d; U
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.% ~* P9 K: h! F. |
no arrests had been made in the attack.5 k; A+ m* ]; F+ o5 S. V2 \ f
"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." F0 y4 @+ Z; m9 s
police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently. |