A community where "everyone's children play out in the street together" was rocked after a nine-year-old schoolgirl was shot dead in her home.
The close-knit community in Dovecot woke to the awful news a nine-year-old girl had been murdered. The schoolgirl, named by Merseyside Police as Olivia Pratt-Korbel, was shot in the chest at around 10pm on Monday, August 22 in her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot.
Olivia was rushed to nearby Alder Hey Children's Hospital in a critical condition where she died a short time later. A man also suffered gunshot wounds to his body and a woman - Olivia's mum - was shot in the hand during the incident.
