Moment dad is gunned down in street as little girls play in princess dresses

20.01.2022 - 16:58 / dailyrecord.co.uk

Just seconds after a dad was gunned down in the street, two little girls wearing princess dresses could be seen running in away from the shocking scene.

Luke Graham was murdered in broad daylight on June 13, 2018 in Ashton-under-Lyne, on the same street where two children had been playing.

The terrifying incident was captured on CCTV, showing the terrified youngsters escaping rushing in the opposite direction of brutal shooting.

Father-of-two Graham, 31, took a bullet to the shoulder and died instantly as he sat in a VW Caddy van during a drugs turf war, Manchester Evening News reports.

It is one of the few incidences where a gangland assault has crossed over into civilian life.

Graham, known as ‘Tank’, had been lured there believing he was carrying out a drug deal.

But when three men in black balaclavas arrived on the street at around 4.50pm, he was fatally wounded.

His associate was shot in the leg but managed to run away.

The following year, - but one suspect remains at large.

Callum Halpin , 27, is wanted by Greater Manchester Police in connection with the murder of Graham and the attempted murder of Anton Verigotta.

Halpin is 6ft, of fair complexion, a gym user with an athletic build, and possibly a lazy eye.

He has links to Spain and Turkey but his last known address was Beede Street, in Openshaw.

Graham was a small-time drug dealer not long out of prison who was selling drugs in the area, undercutting the prices of the more established gangs on the patch.

It sparked a turf war which had deadly consequences.

Detective Chief Inspector Liz Hopkinson that Graham and his associate had “stepped on the toes” of an organised crime group.

"They were not an organised crime group - really they were an unknown quantity,” she