Shot boy, 11, dies in mother’s arms
Rhys Jones died after being shot in the neck as he played football with friends outside the Fir Tree pub in Croxteth, Liverpool, at about 7.30pm on Wednesday night.
Family friend Tony Edge said Rhys’s mother Melanie raced to the scene where she held him until the ambulance arrived. Paramedics battled to save his life, but he was pronounced dead later at Alder Hey Hospital.
