Police have identified the 14-year-old boy that was shot and killed outside Roxborough High School in Philadelphia Tuesday evening, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer and 6ABC.
Nicholas Elizalde of Havertown, Delaware County, was among five teenagers shot on the 4700 block of Pechin Street just as a junior varsity football scrimmage ended between three schools.
Elizalde was rushed by medics to Einstein Medical Center, where he died a short time later.
He was a member of Roxborough’s football team, but attended Saul High School, a nearby magnet school that focuses on agriculture, according to Philadelphia School District spokesperson Christina Clark.
Officials have not publicly identified the four other teens who were wounded in the shooting, the Inquirer said. Three were hospitalized and listed in stable condition this morning, while a fifth suffered a graze wound to the right ankle, police said.
Just after 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, Roxborough High junior varsity football players had left the field and were headed to their locker room when four shooters who had been waiting in a car parked outside the field jumped out and shot toward the group of boys, police said.
All the shooting victims were Roxborough players, police said.
Including the victims of Tuesday’s shootings, 178 children have been shot in Philadelphia so far this year and 23 have died.
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