Raven Dr residents scared after shootings

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Neighbors in the Birdville community are scared after two shootings this year shake Raven Drive.

August 20 marked the first day of school for children living in the Birdville Community. It also marked the death of another neighbor.

Sydni Curtis said just after she got her son home, the Raven Drive was swarmed by police.

"They wasn't even all the way out of they school uniforms yet when gun shots rang out"

Authorities said 25-year-old Orlando Bohannon died from gunshot wounds.

A neighbor said he was a nice man.

"Just a friendly person. He comes by and sits and talks with us. He was at my house the day before," she said.

In April, Frederick Bernard Williams, 20, was killed on Raven Drive.

"They coming from other communities, shooting our guys. It just be drive by shootings," said one neighbor.

Both of these shootings happened in daylight with children nearby.

After Monday’s shooting, Curtis said she was scared. She is a single mother going to school to be medical assistant.

She said she is trying to get a better life for her son.

"They can’t scare me because I got to finish what I started. I got to get out of Birdville. Got to get out of Mobile period," said Curtis.

Every day Curtis walks her son to school and then takes the bus to school.

After she picks him up, they walk down Raven Drive together.

"We try to get home as quickly as possible at a very speedy pace. And we go and watch Sponge Bob and the shooting we hear. We try and just tune everything out," said Curtis.

Many like Curtis are doing what they can to live life far away from Raven Drive.

"I'm trying to move right now," said one neighbor.

Curtis said her son is her motivation to get out.

"I want him to get a career. I want him to get into a field he likes and enjoys. I want him not just to know Mobile and these streets cause there’s more to life than that. I want him to know better than what I'm knowing, and what I have to go through,” said Curtis.

Darrell Robinson and Tarris Cromwell were arrested shortly after Williams’s murder.

Police are asking for information in the death of Bohannon.