4 shootings in the past 5 days in Darby Borough

Monday, May 11, 2015
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In the last five days there have been four shootings in Darby Borough, Delaware County.

DARBY BOROUGH., Pa. (WPVI) -- In the last five days there have been four shootings in Darby Borough, Delaware County.

The most recent happened after a large fight broke out on Sunday.

Now Darby Police are vowing stepped up enforcement in the wake of that Mother's Day melee that had moms and everyone else diving for cover.

About a dozen people were battling it out with baseball bats and fists near 3rd and Greenway while children played nearby.

Surveillance video captured the brawl.

At one point, a man in a black shirt can be seen reaching into his cargo shorts and pulls out a gun.

The video ends just before the gunshots when a woman attacks the person recording it.

Borough Council member Jennifer Parks lives on the block. She says she heard about 6 gunshots.

Parks says, "When they started shooting, I came outside, everybody was running and the children was screaming."

One bullet went through the window of a nearby house.

"It's just senseless because it could have been anybody out here and anybody could have got shot. They could have got killed," Parks said.

Police have arrested one of the men involved in the melee, Tamir Austin, and charged him with riotoing.

They are still looking for the gunman, identified as 23-year-old Raheem Pressley, who is currently out on parole.

Police went to Pressely's last known address in Collingdale Sunday night and found drugs and other evidence that he had been there.

Police are also searching for his girlfriend, Tessa Mims.

In the meantime, they are vowing to take back that neighborhood where 90 people were rounded up on drug charges just four years ago.