Two murder investigations were launched just streets apart in the space of an hour, Merseyside Police has confirmed.
The murders, which are not linked and police are not treating as connected in any way, took place within half a mile of one another.
First, police were called to Feltwood Close in West Derby at around 5:30am on Sunday, December 19.
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Officers were called to a flat where the body of a man in his 40s was discovered.
Two men aged 30 and 26 and a 20-year-old woman from Liverpool have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Just a few streets away on Princess Drive, officers were called out at around 6.30am the same day to reports a man had been stabbed in the chest.
He was taken to hospital by ambulance where he died.
The locations of the two murders are just a 10 minute walk from one another - but there is no suggestion the cases are linked in any way.
Speaking to the ECHO last night, a spokeswoman for the force said officers investigating the two incidents have confirmed they are not linked.
Forensics officers working at the scene of the murder probe on Princess Drive were seen coming and going from a property on Sunday as they searched for evidence.
Road closures were put in place on both Princess Drive and Aspes Road while forensic examinations and house-to-house inquiries were carried out.
Photos taken at the scene showed a police cordon in place outside the entrance to a row of houses and a silver car inside the cordon.
In tributes shared on social media people described the victim as a "lovely lad".
Others described their shock and sadness at the news, which one woman described as "sickening."
At the scene of the murder at the flat in Feltwood Close, an officer was seen guarding the entrance to a block of flats as a car of undercover officers pulled up outside.
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