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11yr old shot dead in pub car park in Liverpool
Topic Started: Aug 23 2007, 01:42 AM (244 Views)
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An 11-year-boy has died after being shot in the neck in the Croxteth area of Liverpool.
The incident happened shortly after 1930 BST in the car park of the Fir Tree public house on Fir Tree Drive.

A witness said the victim was one of three boys walking across the car park when a teenager on a BMX bicycle fired three shots, one of which hit the boy.

He was rushed to Alder Hey Hospital but police later confirmed that he had died from his injuries.

Officers have sealed off the scene, including a neighbouring parade of shops, and no-one has yet been arrested in connection with the shooting.

'Ripped apart'

Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Simon Byrne appealed directly to the local community to help catch the killer.

He said: "Someone out there knows who put the gun in his hand and I want your help to get the community to turn that gunman in tonight.


"This is quite an awful crime, quite senseless, and the community holds the clue to solving this crime quickly.

"You can only imagine the heartache of the family that's been ripped apart.

"We urge anybody, particularly in the criminal fraternity, that this is quite an awful and senseless crime and please turn in who is responsible quickly.

"There is no hiding place and no time for silence."

The eyewitness, who did not want to be named but was drinking outside the pub, said a youth aged about 14 or 15, wearing a hoodie, rode up to the car park and fired three shots from a distance of about 30 metres.

One shot missed the boys and another hit a car, while the other bullet entered the victim's neck.

People came from the pub to help the victim, whose mother was also called to the scene.

A spokesman for North West Ambulance Service said: "We treated an 11-year-old with serious gunshot wounds."

He added the boy, who had been returning from football training on playing fields close to the pub, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

'Gangs of youths'

Councillor Rose Bailey, who lives nearby and is a member of the local police authority, appealed for people with information to come forward.

She added: "It sends shockwaves through the community of Croxteth and really it must be devastating.

"To think your young son is out playing football and then to get a call to say he's been shot, I really don't know as a parent how you would handle that."

The area around the pub was made a "designated area" by police last year, meaning officers could disperse groups and move people away from the area.

The decision was made in response to concerns raised by local residents about youths gathering outside the pub and local shops.

At the time, Neighbourhood Inspector Louise Harrison said: "The designated area has been introduced in response to concerns about gangs of youths who hang around the local area behaving in an anti social way."



I live not far from here and also work nearby - just been hearing on the news that people who witnessed the incident will not 'grass' on what they saw incase it happens to them :( :( it's still early details into the inquiry but this lad was only the same age as my eldest :( :( it makes me shudder hearing news like this but also more protective over letting my witches out on the street (wont even let my 2 out of my close - never mind to local parks

btw - if people dont know about a 'designated area' - it normally means the police have been to court and ordered a 'section 30' in the area which means groups of people more than 3 are not allowed to be together in there - normally on the basis as stated for anti-social behaviour
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This is very sad Jayne.
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The heartache of many Americans with gangs and drive-bys, the true terrorists, now showing up all over the place. So sad and so so sorry for the people involved. This truly is a long sad day.
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This is appalling, I hope the police get to the bottom of this quickly.
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Nothing surprises me anymore. Hate to say it, but it seems to happen almost every day now. :( :angry: :(
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Aug 22 2007, 10:21 PM
The heartache of many Americans with gangs and drive-bys, the true terrorists, now showing up all over the place. So sad and so so sorry for the people involved. This truly is a long sad day.

You are so right about gangs being the true terrorist. If our government would just put a little effort into that war.
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Aug 23 2007, 02:31 PM
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Aug 22 2007, 10:21 PM
The heartache of many Americans with gangs and drive-bys, the true terrorists, now showing up all over the place.  So sad and so so sorry for the people involved.  This truly is a long sad day.

You are so right about gangs being the true terrorist. If our government would just put a little effort into that war.

Living near the mean streets of Los Angeles, and hearing from friends that have had drive-bys directed at them and their young children, and now the streets of anytown in the world this is truer now more than ever. We really need to get a grip on this epidemic before terrorism strikes the next town and the next, and the next..........


The question is, how do we do this? How do we make kids like these stop and think about their actions? How do we make them want to value lives, including their own, more? How?
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There are drive by's in my town too. It sad. people going around killing one another and innocent Victims.
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Jayne, I heard this on BBC World Service last night and I thought of you. This is very terrible and I hope those who did this get caught and get the punishment they deserve.
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Aug 23 2007, 09:19 PM
Nothing surprises me anymore. Hate to say it, but it seems to happen almost every day now. :( :angry: :(

The thing to remember is that incidends like this are still comparitivly rare but make the head lines being far more news worthy. People killed in gun crime are a tiny fraction of those killed in road traffic accidents every day. The scary thing is that someone set out with intent to kill an innocent child and this will now have consiquences for the whole of this community.
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