Police suspect racial motive in Liverpool ax killing
* a, w5 p, l/ H5 u- B/ Y 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 ]6 Q, K* q! s c# o& M6 J6 ]' n 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.# D9 N O, s" g, ?& O4 R/ H( ^
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) T9 j' Q& N9 l* r0 I 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.
: b+ k( t" _$ m f, N No arrests had been made in the attack.
: l. Q9 U3 l+ 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.) o; Q3 i* B% e
Police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently. |