Overview

• Merseyside Police arrested a 22-year-old man from Thornton on suspicion of murder and possession of a firearm over the June 2024 shooting of Ellis Cox, with the suspect in custody for questioning.
• A 32-year-old man from Croxteth arrested last week in the same inquiry has been conditionally bailed, bringing the total number of arrests to six as detectives continue to seek information from the public.
• Two males suffered slash wounds in Netherton after an attack by six masked suspects on electric motorbikes; two men have been arrested on suspicion of robbery and bailed as officers appeal for CCTV and dashcam footage.
• Two teenagers were robbed on Bold Street where a knife and an axe were seized and three suspects detained; separate city-centre patrols continue under the Safer Streets Summer initiative.
• Other enforcement included three men charged and remanded over a city-centre robbery that left a man unconscious, three arrests in a Moreton drug investigation with a knife seized, a Wavertree shop-robbery suspect detained after a rooftop standoff, and two arrests over a stolen scrambler bike advertised online.