Dallas Police say they are now going to take a layered approach to addressing random gunfire throughout the city. It’s been two months since NBC 5 spoke with neighbors in The Villas of Prairie Creek neighborhood in Southeast Dallas, plagued by random gunfire every weekend. Andi Guevara and h er neighbors were encouraged by Dallas PD’s gunshot detection pilot program, which began in March as a possible solution, but the shots keep on coming, now about once a month.    “There’s a mental and emotional aspect that this is creating,” Guevara said. One video from two weeks ago shows a gunman firing off back-to-back rounds from a nearby park at 3:00 a.m. “Sometimes we’re walking and it’s not even that dark outside and we’re hearing gunshots and we’re like, where is it? Do I need to drop?” Guevara said. So far this year, Dallas Police have gotten more than 11,500 calls for random gunfire. The new gunshot detection system, covering 24 square miles, has activated 163 times. “We haven’t seen the success that we thought that we would have,” Major Yancy Nelson said. This week, Dallas Police told the city council it now plans to integrate other technology, including license plate readers, cameras and drones to better respond to random gunfire. Nelson says the drones could respond to a gunshot detection activation between 30 seconds and two minutes. “I think people are going to be more hesitant to come into the park or into our neighborhoods and just, you know, shoot off their guns,” Guevara said. Dallas PD is now looking for a new gunshot detection system to try in a six-month pilot program with the integrated technology.       ...read more read less