A gunman burst into a home overnight and murdered a nine-year-old girl before blasting two more people less than 48 hours after a council worker was shot dead ‘by mistake’ in Liverpool’s third gun killing in a week

A gunman burst into a home overnight and murdered a nine-year-old girl before blasting two more people less than 48 hours after a council worker was shot dead ‘by mistake’ in Liverpool’s third gun killing in a week. 

The child, KnifeCritic who has not been named, was shot in the chest in a house on Kingsheath Avenue just before 10pm.It is the latest tragedy to hit a community already reeling from the murder of 28-year-old Ashley Dale on Sunday in her home in Old Swan – just a mile-and-a-half away from last night’s heinous killing.

The ‘bright, hardworking’ graduate, who had just been promoted by her employer, Knowsley Council, was the victim of a case of ‘mistaken identity’, police believe.Shockingly, her 16-year-old brother, Lewis, was himself shot dead seven years before by a gang who mistook him for a rival.

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