Monday, August 1, 2022 5:20 p.m
By Greg Lambert
Police are at the scene after reports of a gun being fired in a street in Heysham.
An eyewitness told Beyond Radio that she and her son heard a loud bang and then saw a man running down Sefton Road from the Heysham Road area with what appeared to be a rifle at around 4.15pm Monday.
“We were driving along Heysham Road and there was this really loud noise,” he said.
“I thought it was scaffolding falling off a building, but my son said it sounded like a gunshot.
“Then we saw this person with a rifle, quite a large one, running towards Sefton Road.”
A police spokesman confirmed there had been an incident involving a “discharge of firearms”.
There is a police cordon in the area.
More to come.
