police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing
6 F5 Z% @" ?' Y3 J; I" _ o 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.
! m3 q: p$ h& g5 B1 N0 p 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.8 Q# s& `5 g( P
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.
2 k3 |3 ]# o) D$ ` 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.2 l" d; f5 H$ H: P8 T5 I9 y
no arrests had been made in the attack.
2 u, d5 C' N8 `# I: R "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./ a) I5 d% F6 L" w. @
police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently |