Teenager, 18, is stabbed to death just two streets away from family home where 20-year-old was shot

A teenager has been stabbed to death just two streets away from where a 20-year-old was shot dead.

Emergency services were called to Vincent Road, Litherland, this afternoon, after reports an 18-year-old man had been stabbed in the chest.

The victim was taken to hospital by ambulance but later died, police said. A force spokesman said the 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody for questioning.

It comes just days after 20-year-old Michael Rainsford was gunned down in his kitchen only a couple of streets away.

And in another unrelated violent incident, a 47-year-old man will appear in court tomorrow after a 52-year-old woman was found dead in her home in Bognor Regis on Saturday. 

The tragic incident in Litherland at Easter Bank Holiday occurred just a few roads from where Michael Rainsford was hit by two bullets while in standing in the kitchen of his home in Litherland, Merseyside, just after 11pm on Tuesday.

The talented skateboarder was a ‘warm, friendly and handsome’ son who devotedly cared for his disabled mum, his heartbroken family said.

Michael’s father, also called Michael, said his son was never in trouble with police and wasn’t a stereotypical ‘lovable rogue.’

In an emotional and wide-ranging tribute, Mr Rainsford, 53, told how the part-time landscape worker looked after his mum Joanne, 43, who suffers from DiGeorge Syndrome and a form of psychosis.

He said Michael loved fish, and was in the middle of building a pond in the back garden of the Harrington Road where he was shot.

Michael almost won a prestigious skateboarding trophy in 2013, coming second to an Olympic athlete during the competition at the O2 Arena in London.

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