One teen is dead and four others are injured after police say a shooting erupted following a football scrimmage at Roxborough High School on Tuesday afternoon.
Deputy Commissioner John Stanford told reporters the shooting happened after a joint practice between Roxborough High School, Northeast High School and Boys Latin High School.
The group of students, who police believe are all players for Roxborough High School, were walking on Peachin Street when police say they were "ambushed" by at least two gunmen. "I am absolutely outraged, I'm shocked, quite frankly I'm a little shaken," District Attorney Larry Krasner said. "Schools are supposed to be the answer, they're supposed to be the answer, we keep kids in schools, so they don't get involved in shooting."
The deadly shooting comes shortly after Philadelphia matched 400 homicides so far this year, a slight increase from a historically bloody 2021. "Schools used to be a safe haven for our young people," Special Advisor on School Safety Kevin Bethel told reporters. "To see that now our young people can't even come to a scrimmage game and be shot is totally unacceptable."banning guns from recreation spaces"There are no words for what transpired earlier tonight. Another young life has been cut short and others injured by needless violence," Kenney tweeted following the shooting.
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