A woman was found with fatal gunshot wounds in the back garden of a house in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident happened in Liverpool and a murder investigation has been launched.
Police had been alerted to concerns about the safety of a woman and were deployed to an address in Leinster Road, Old Swan, just after 12.40am today. The found a woman in the rear garden with gunshot wounds, LiverpoolEcho reports.
She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. Efforts are now underway to formally identify the woman and notify her next of kin.
