Overview
- A 19-year-old was shot in the leg and back on Manley Road, Huyton at about 8:50pm on November 7 and remains in a critical condition in hospital.
- Officers established a cordon, conducted house-to-house and forensic enquiries, reviewed CCTV, and deployed a helicopter, with appeals issued for witness and dashcam footage.
- Police are investigating a separate report that a gun was fired at a house on Circular Road East in West Derby, where damage to a window was found and no injuries were reported.
- A warrant executed in Kirkby on November 6 led to the seizure of cash, watches, two vehicles under POCA and a so-called zombie knife, with a 35-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman arrested and later bailed.
- Detectives say items recovered in Kirkby are believed to be linked to a high-value Southport burglary in April, while two teenagers have been charged over an October 10 robbery and attempted robberies in Wavertree involving an imitation firearm.