police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing - I$ q3 v7 J) J, q& p7 e
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.
/ m5 G2 K8 [% b6 T0 Z D3 fanthony 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. - p# \. }1 c. C+ ]2 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. 3 Z' s( J% J( ?* f6 |. Q
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.
& N6 [ c7 j- }. s6 d1 }: X( {* {no arrests had been made in the attack. + Y/ ]1 C: y: l7 a' I
"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.
i, R: }2 ?( C6 w' bpolice said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently |
发表于 2012-8-15 00:04:42
