Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel suffered three gunshot wounds caused by a single bullet which hit her chest after it was fired into her family home, a court has heard.
Jurors were told that the nine-year-old's older brother, Ryan Korbel, described the schoolgirl running downstairs screaming: 'Mum I'm scared', then her sister, Chloe Korbel, heard their mother screaming that 'Livia had been hit'.
The schoolgirl had been terrified after hearing gunshots outside the family home in Dovecot, Liverpool, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Olivia was standing on the stairs behind her mother, Cheryl Korbel, 46, when she was hit in the chest by a bullet fired by alleged gunman Thomas Cashman, jurors heard.