LaBrian Dale-Parker, a 34-year-old male from Fredericksburg, Virginia, was killed on September 20, 2015, after gunfire erupted at the Tanqueray/Tangeray Tavern on the 900 block of Pratt Street in Philadelphia's Summerdale section. What began as a Sunday evening inside or around a neighborhood bar quickly turned violent when an argument among patrons escalated and a gunman opened fire.
Dale-Parker was struck multiple times during the shooting and was rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:44 p.m.
The shooting was not an isolated burst of violence involving only one victim. Reports from the time said three other people were wounded, with at least one of the injured arriving at Aria-Frankford Hospital by private vehicle in critical condition. Police and local reporters described a chaotic scene: crime tape around the tavern, officers working the block, and a motorcycle found toppled nearby. Witnesses reportedly told police that a large group of bikers fled after the shots, with estimates ranging from at least 15 to as many as 30 people leaving the area.
Investigators quickly looked at the possibility that the shooting was connected to motorcycle-club conflict. Dale-Parker was reportedly wearing a Wheels of Soul jacket when he was shot, and the Wheels of Soul Motorcycle Club was repeatedly identified in coverage as a Philadelphia-based outlaw motorcycle club with a significant criminal history tied to some members. Some reports described the violence as possibly tied to feuding bikers or a biker-gang dispute, though police did not publicly identify a named shooter in the immediate coverage.
The available online reports do not show a confirmed arrest, named suspect, trial, conviction, or sentencing specifically for Dale-Parker's killing. Contemporary reporting said police were continuing to investigate, and later summaries of the incident still described the case in terms of a suspected motorcycle-club-related shooting rather than a solved prosecution. One online account connected the incident generally to rivalry involving the Wheels of Soul and other motorcycle clubs, but the publicly available reporting reviewed did not establish a specific person as the charged killer in Dale-Parker's death.
In the end, the story left behind in public reports is one of a violent confrontation that spilled through a Philadelphia tavern and scattered witnesses into the street. Dale-Parker, who had come from Virginia and was linked by clothing to the Wheels of Soul, became the person who did not survive the burst of gunfire. Others were injured, a crowd of bikers disappeared from the scene, and police were left trying to sort through whether the shooting was the result of a personal argument, a broader motorcycle-club feud, or both.
