Shots were fired on a Merseyside street for the first time since the death of Olivia Pratt-Korbel and only hours after she was laid to rest.
The nine-year-old became the third person to die after being shot in the space of six days when a gunman burst into her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at around 10pm on Monday, August 22. Her death came less than 24 hours after 28-year-old Ashley Dale was killed in similar circumstances in Old Swan, and six days after 22-year-old Sam Rimmer was shot in the street in Dingle.
Since Olivia's death, no shootings had been reported in Merseyside, perhaps due to a massively increased police presence as well as ramped up targeted operations to disrupt organised crime, enabled by extra Home Office funding and mutual aid from neighbouring police forces.
