Last night, a little girl was playing at home with her mum and older siblings when a stranger in a balaclava invaded their home and shot her dead.
The horror unfolded in a terraced house on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, shortly before 10pm last night (Monday August 22). Within seconds, nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was dying and her mum, 46-year-old Cheryl Korbel, was wounded and in the grip of unimaginable grief.
Olivia's death is the latest, most shocking incident in a tragic week for the city and Merseyside Police. From 13 months without a gun murder, the force has launched three major investigations into firearms deaths in the space of one week. Meanwhile, Kirkby nan Karen Dempsey was also fatally stabbed last night while trying to break up a fight.
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