In the early hours of August 21, 2022, Merseyside Police officers were called to a property in Old Swan and found a young woman lying in the rear garden with gunshot wounds. Paramedics provided CPR at the scene, and she was taken to hospital but sadly died a short time later.

Her name was Ashley Dale. She was not the intended target of the gunman who burst into her home on Leinster Road and opened fire.