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Two brothers were fatally shot after a neighborhood dispute in Philadelphia’s East Mount Airy. Symir Yelverton, 23, and his older brother Raheem Martin, 24, were shot around 10:30 p.m. on February 16, 2017, outside a cousin’s home on the 300 block of East Upsal Street, where they had recently been staying. Both were found in a rear driveway with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and torso, taken to Einstein Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Each brother was a father to a young child.

Investigators say the violence followed an ongoing argument between the brothers and a group of men; witnesses saw four males fleeing on foot. Police reported detectives working the case and believed friction had developed between the men, though the precise motive remained unclear and, as of March 2017, no arrests had been made. Their mother, Maria Yelverton, said her sons had been trying to rebuild their lives after prior drug-related arrests and were doing landscaping and carpentry work.

Did anyone in East Mount Airy see the four men running from the scene that night or know what sparked the dispute?