People in Liverpool are waking up to the devastating news that a nine-year-old girl has been shot dead.
A man burst into a house on Kingsheath Avenue, in Dovecot, and fired a number of shots. The girl suffered a gunshot wound to the chest before being rushed to hospital where she died a short time later.
A man inside the home also suffered a number of gunshots to his body while a woman was shot in the hand before the gunman fled the scene. Tributes have been paid to the schoolgirl following the devastating news that broke overnight.
