A group of heroic women lifted a car off a 12-year-old girl after a shooting victim accidentally ran her over. A street ambush on October 31, 2019, saw a 22-year-old man blasted in the face on Sceptre Road, Croxteth, Merseyside.The attack was part of an intensifying gang rivalry erupting in the Liverpool suburb.
And the incident turned into a Halloween horror which changed the life of the adolescent bystander in an instant.In his panic to escape, the shooting victim reversed his black Volkswagen Golf over the girl and dragged her several feet down the road.
A group of six brave women watching nearby rushed to her aid and physically lifted the VW off of her body, Liverpool ECHO reports.She had suffered a fractured skull, a bleed on the brain, and skin burns to her back.
She was rushed to hospital to be treated and on November 20, police confirmed that she was recovering at home.The driver's window of the VW was smashed from three gunshots and the man, who was bleeding on one side of his face, was wounded by the shards of glass and pellets.
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