Two arrested over Rhys shooting
Updated on 23 August 2007
As police arrest two teenagers, forensic experts work out how 11-year-old Rhys Jones was shot dead.
He was shot while playing football with friends in a pub car park. Then, 11-year-old Rhys Jones' teenage killer escaped on a BMX bike.
His last moments were spent cradled in his mother's arms. Tributes were paid to the boy who one friend described as always having a smile on his face.
Meanwhile, Liverpool police today questioned a 14- and a 18-year-old. in connection with his murder.
The shooting happened last night in the city's Croxteth area. Rhys had been playing football with his friends in the car park of the local Fir Tree pub.
Forensic officers today were trying to calculate the exact trajectory of the bullets and how the boy came to be shot. Examining the event from the air, the layout became clearer.
Bullet trajectory
As Rhys was playing football in the car park, the shooter on the BMX rode up the foot path on the other side of the pub and from 30 to 40 metres away, opened fire.
He hit the car with one shot, missed with another and fatally wounded Rhys who was standing almost directory in the line of fire.
