police suspect racial motive1 in liverpool ax killing2
a black teenager who was followed through a park by a group of men shouting racist3 taunts4 died saturday after an attacker embedded5 an ax in his skull6.
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 walkers home in liverpool, police said.
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 walkers companions saw someone bludgeon him with an ax.
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.
no arrests had been made in the attack.
what we are dealing7 with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated, said detective chief superintendent8 peter currie, who was leading the investigation9.
police said several other incidents of racial abuse had been reported in the area recently
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