police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing
# O! C k- b3 o. l5 q3 z1 s/ r 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. " I( S2 e6 L& W5 H
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. : Q) i3 \* ~. | ` v& h2 h" i
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 B2 b+ d6 P( D5 _- S5 [9 ^
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. 1 v+ x; p" i1 D8 b& c6 ~9 c, ~
no arrests had been made in the attack.
$ @8 q& z% k/ N' p6 Q, y"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. / L3 D, E/ F$ v* s% B2 K) A! ~0 F
police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently |