There are mixed feelings in the community about the bands of “urban” peacocks which roam freely through more than a dozen blocks of yards in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, from Errol Heights Park north to S.E. Henderson Street.
Frequently, visitors, driving through the area on Flavel Drive, between 45th and 52nd Avenues, will abruptly stop in the middle of the street to snap cell phone photos of the colorful, squawking birds. Some of the residents love these released pet birds; others are disgusted by the early-morning screeching they make.
A person evidently in the second category, Dylan Levi Rhoads, a resident of S.E. Rex Street, displayed distain for the peacocks on September 29, 2023 – by taking actions that eventually led him to being jailed, two years later, on an attempted murder charge…