The family of an innocent girl who was shot as she waited for a bus home from school say they "didn't recognise her" after the shocking incident.
Rio Jones was jailed on Tuesday for life with a minimum term of 16-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court in connection with the shooting on Upper Warwick Street in Toxteth in March last year. The 19-year-old was convicted of attempting to murder rival gang member Shakur Watson, whom he had been chasing on an electric bike when he opened fire six times.
He was also found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm against a 15-year-old girl, who was struck by one of the bullets as she waited at a nearby bus stop with a friend. She was hit in the neck by the shot which caused her lung damage and damaged her vertebrae.
