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police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing
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.  
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.  
$ t$ q6 `" z  L0 Rthe 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.  
! p- m& }0 a6 |6 h3 t" nthey 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.  
" s- [- _9 x+ Bno arrests had been made in the attack.  
"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.  
8 E% V, U4 N7 i, _& d: _police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently