The Dallas Police Department (DPD) rolled out the new gunshot detection system in March. Communities across the city hope to see it in their neighborhoods.
For the past five years, a plaguing problem just outside the Villas of Prairie Creek neighborhood in Dallas has now come to a breaking point.
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"It’s damaged people's properties and we just don't want someone to get hurt or worse die from a gunshot," Andi Guevara said.
Bullets have landed in bedrooms, living room walls, pierced through fences and sides of homes.
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The neighbors tell NBC 5 the random gunfire has become a predictable hazard.
"We have dummy cameras, everybody got their own cameras. I have here ni