The mother of murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones, Melanie wipes her eyes during the minute's applause ahead of the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Blackburn Rovers in Liverpool, northern England August 26, 2007. The 11-year-old died after being shot in a...
The family of murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones, father Stephen (2ndL), mother Melanie (2ndR) and brother Owen (R) stand with Everton manager David Moyes (L) during the minute's applause ahead of the Premier League match between Everton and Blackburn Rovers in Liverpool on...
The parents of murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones, Melanie (R) and Stephen, hold hands during the minute's applause ahead of the Premier League match between Everton and Blackburn Rovers in Liverpool on August 26, 2007. The 11-year-old died after being shot in a car park outside...
Teams from Everton (TOP) and Blackburn Rovers take part in a minute's applause for murdered schoolboy Rhys Jones ahead of their Premier League match in Liverpool on August 26, 2007. The 11-year-old died after being shot in a car park outside a pub on Wednesday night.
Flowers are laid at the scene where British boy Rhys Jones was shot dead in Liverpool, on August 24, 2007. Police investigating the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones have issued a description of a teenage suspect after his parents begged the public for help to catch the...
An undated handout photograph, released August 24, 2007, shows murdered boy Rhys Jones. Police investigating the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones have issued a description of a teenage suspect after his parents begged the public for help to catch the killer.
Eleven-year-old Rhys Jones is seen in this undated hanout photo. Jones died after being shot in a pub car park in Liverpool, police said on Wednesday. Reuters/Police Handout/Merseyside Police
LONDON Liverpool police arrested six more teenagers, two of them girls, on Saturday in connection with the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones and renewed appeals for help in finding his killer.
Three boys aged, 15, 16, and 19 and two girls aged 15 and 18 were detained in Liverpool on Saturday morning, a Merseyside Police spokesman said. Another 19-year-old male was arrested later in the day.
Detective Superintendent David Kelly said one of the boys was injured during the arrest when he fell from a window through which he was trying to escape. He said the injuries were not life-threatening.
He called for a dark-haired woman seen pushing a pram in the area at the time of the shooting to come forward.
"We believe this woman may have passed by the person responsible for killing Rhys," he told reporters, adding that the woman had been wearing white flared trousers and a dark top.
Detectives expressed concern at the lack of evidence from the public and urged people to "stand up and be counted".
Chief Superintendent Chris Armitt of Merseyside Police said he would protect people scared of reprisals from local gangs if they come forward.
"We understand that people are frightened, but people have got to stand up and be counted," he told reporters. "We have not had the level of information about those key issues that we would expect and that we want.
"We understand those concerns and I'm trying to offer reassurance that we will do something about protecting people."
Rhys, 11, was shot dead outside a pub in the Croxteth area of Liverpool on Wednesday in an attack that Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a "heinous crime".
Armitt said the boy may have been caught up in a long-running feud between rival gangs in Liverpool.
He appealed directly to family and friends of the killer, believed to be a teenager aged 13-16 riding a BMX bicycle.
"If you have a member of your family who falls into that age group ... who was out that night, who perhaps is nervous, concerned, behaving unusually, then perhaps parents or siblings of that individual need to be asking themselves questions," Armitt said.
Police appealed for information over the public address system at half-time during the match between Everton and Blackburn Rovers at Goodison Park.
The football-loving schoolboy was a season-ticket holder at Everton with his father Stephen and brother Owen.
On Friday police arrested a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of Rhys's murder. Two others, aged 14 and 18, have been bailed.
The shooting was the latest in a spate of murders of young people across Britain this year that have focused attention on gang-related violence.
(Additional reporting by Tim Castle and Jeremy Lovell)
Seis adolescentes han sido arrestados para interrogarlos en relación al asesinato de Rhys Jones en el área de Croxteth de Liverpool, ocurrido el miércoles por la noche.

Los arrestos de cuatro adolescentes de sexo masculino (de edades de 15, 16 y dos de 19) y dos de sexo femenino (edades 15 y 18) hacen llegar hasta siete al número de personas retenidas en custodia, junto con un quinceanero arrestado ayer, y hacen llegar hasta nueve al número total de arrestos hasta ahora. Cinco de los adolescentes fueron arrestados esta mañana, mientras que el restante fue arrestado más tarde durante el día. Los arrestos fueron todos hechos en las áreas de Croxteth y Norris Green en Liverpool.

El Detective Superintendente David Kelly dijo que uno de los arrestados que tiene 19 años de edad está siendo tratado en el hospital por heridas menores que sufrió durante el arresto, luego de que cayó de un primer piso tratando de escapar.

Kelly también dijo que a la policía le gustaría hablar en particular con una mujer de cabello oscuro, diciendo: "La mujer podrías ser potencialmente una testigo clave. Sabemos por nuestros interrogatorios que había una mujer llevando un cochecito de niño minutos antes de que Rhys fuera matado y creemos que habría pasado cerca del asesino".

Luego añadió que el asesino emergió de un complejo urbano detrás del pub Fir Tree y anduvo en su bicicleta detrás del pub por algunos minutos antes de disparar los tres tiros, uno de los cuales le dio en el cuello a Rhys, que estaba volviendo a su casa luego de jugar fútbol.

La policía está examinando una bicicleta encontrada abandonada ayer, pero aún no ha encontrado el arma asesina, que se estima que es una pistola negra de barril largo.

El Jefe Superintendente Chris Armitt pidió la comunidad local para que "examinen sus consciencias" y tomen una posición frente a la cultura pandillera.

"Entendemos que la gente esté preocupada por dar información a la policía, entendemos que la gente esté asustada, eso es natural", añadió luego. "La policía no ha conseguido los niveles de información sobre estos temas claves que esperábamos y que queremos". Además, aseguró a miembros del público que cualquier testigo que diga lo que sepa será protegido, diciendo que nadie con información deberá "levantarse y ser contado".