Merseyside Police can confirm that emergency services are in attendance after reports of a shooting in the Southport area today, Thursday 21 December.

At around 12.30pm, a call was received of a gun shot in the area of Eastbank Street. Armed officers attended and a man in his 20s was found with a non life-threatening head injury and will be taken to hospital. A bus driver was also found with a minor injury and will be taken to hospital.



Enquiries are ongoing at the scene to establish the exact circumstances and a road closure is currently in place on Eastbank Street from Kings Street to Lord Street.

Chief Inspector Paul Sutcliffe said: "I want to appeal to any witnesses to this incident to come forward.

"To fire any weapon in a busy street at this time of the day is incredibly reckless and there will have been numerous people in the area, some of whom may have seen the incident or somebody running off, or have dashcam or CCTV footage to assist.

"We are determined to find the person responsible and bring them to justice and I want to reassure people that there are extensive enquiries ongoing to establish the circumstances."

Anyone with information is asked to contact officers on the gun crime hotline on 0800 230 0600 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Information can also be provided via their online form: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-in...rmation-online.

Well the bus is full of CCTV so hopefully there will be some video evidence there.

The place is like big brother cameras on near enough every business around the town centre would be very very surprised if not one camera has the incident on it.

its getting like the wild west what with a least 6 breakins handbag snatches and now shootings in broad daylight

So now that the scum of Southport realise there are no real consequences from either their families or society for vandalism and ASB, they move onto the next level. When will this country wake up and start dealing with young offenders and criminals effectively!?

Bartman will be posing for a picture soon!!

Originally Posted by Ceam

Well the bus is full of CCTV so hopefully there will be some video evidence there.

Who mentioned a bus?

None in any pictures either, the Bus driver was probably walking to or from the nearby Arriva Office.


sea-salted

Bartman will be posing for a picture soon!!

Too hot for him around there!

Originally Posted by Seashells&sand

So now that the scum of Southport realise there are no real consequences from either their families or society for vandalism and ASB, they move onto the next level. When will this country wake up and start dealing with young offenders and criminals effectively!?

+1.

Criminal activity has been steadily increasing in Southport for years, but it's ramped-up big time recently; burglary, stabbings, muggings, car-jackings, ram-raids and now gun crime: WTF? The Police Force are stretched thin and can no longer work pro-actively, the power vacuum created by their lack of presence has allowed thuggery to thrive which stretches them further still - ironic really. Local vigilante groups and private security enforcement are probably the way forward.

Originally Posted by Alikado

Who mentioned a bus?

None in any pictures either, the Bus driver was probably walking to or from the nearby Arriva Office.

!

If you look on the Echo at their pictures, you can see a bus was parked up outside the Arriva office. It was stuck inside the cordon.

They had a reporter on the scene (probably one of the Visiter staff) pretty quickly.

What the hell is going on? Shocked

Originally Posted by Alikado

Who mentioned a bus?

None in any pictures either, the Bus driver was probably walking to or from the nearby Arriva Office.


sea-salted

Bartman will be posing for a picture soon!!

Too hot for him around there!

Possibly, but then he's not a bus driver, Just another member of the public.

None life threatening shot to the head, will it turn out to be an air pistol, bb or spud gun, them spud pellets hurt when they go in your eye.

Little bird passed a rumour of the name gelling??????

Originally Posted by paulollie

Little bird passed a rumour of the name gelling??????

Your 'little bird' is wrong. Don't want to give the name but try D*** J*****

22/12/2017 01:27 AMBig Goomer
Quote Originally Posted by paulollie View Post
Little bird passed a rumour of the name gelling??????
Your 'little bird' is wrong. Don't want to give the name but try D*** J*****

Maybe the 'aggressor' and the 'victim' , just saying, smoke and mirrors and all that.