police suspect racial motive in liverpool ax killing
" D W& P" Y. l3 m 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.
+ t7 |5 i' ^1 D# a' |! _ 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.
$ R0 |/ k7 O5 J 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.. n [$ W1 T. u% t! L$ |* L
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.
/ ~4 j* |/ w7 c no arrests had been made in the attack.( _/ O! l5 {* q) Q2 h) p) W; E: T
"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.
$ _" J; J* ~/ w/ e/ n! H% L4 I6 l; D, Q police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently |