The man who is suspected of murdering a little girl who was shot and killed at her home in Liverpool has been arrested.
A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a little girl who was shot dead at her home in Liverpool (northern England), a tragedy that shocked the United Kingdom. On Monday evening, the mother of 9-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel opened the door to her house after hearing a noise in the street. A man then rushed in, pursued by a second who fired indiscriminately, wounding the 46-year-old mother in the hand and killing the little girl who was behind her. “We have arrested a 36-year-old man suspected of murdering Olivia Pratt-Korbel. The man, from the Huyton area, has also been arrested on two counts of attempted murder,” local police said Friday morning. .
This arrest came “after an operation involving armed officers” Thursday, in the Liverpool area. The man was taken into custody. This murder came 15 years after that of an 11-year-old boy who was shot and killed a few kilometers away as he was returning home after playing football. The 35-year-old man who was shot in the attack and has since been hospitalized has been arrested for violating the conditions of his release from prison. He had been transported to the hospital by his friends who had left the little girl behind.
Olivia’s family paid tribute to her on Thursday, describing her as “a unique, talkative, curious little girl.” Her family had called on anyone with information about Olivia’s murder to “speak up” to “find out who took our baby from us.”