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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.
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, S( x* X; c& c0 u1 f/ J4 }8 XThe 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.
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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.

% P' B; G! u# m3 i- A( D( DNo arrests had been made in the attack.
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$ h# J# L7 V8 [( c1 C"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.
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Police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently.