A brutal face slashing may be linked to the point blank shooting of a man who was attacked while sitting at a memorial to a murdered friend.
Detectives are carrying out intensive enquiries after a gunman opened fire on a 23-year-old man in a pedestrianised area between Croxdale Road West and Croxdale Road, West Derby, on Saturday afternoon (July 2). Mobile phone footage captured by a bystander appeared to show a man standing over the victim with a handgun before seven loud bangs are heard in quick succession.
The victim survived but sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his legs and back. He is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital. Police said the gunman fled the scene in a white Seat Leon car.
