Residents of a block of flats in Wavertree believe an eruption of violence in the area is linked to fall-outs between young, reckless drug dealers.
"The kids round here, they just don't care" was the verdict of one man the morning after an unknown assailant fired gunshots at a window, directly opposite where children play on Picton Playground. Witnesses saw four masked men on scooters and bikes chasing each other along Mill Lane an hour before the shot was fired at 7.10pm on Tuesday (June 7).
The gunman opened fire a few streets down from two other shootings, on April 21 and 25, one in which a woman was shot in the leg on Deverell Grove and the second where bullets damaged a window in Birch Grove, both off Mill Lane.
