.matt_odonnell & KScott6abc reporting live on Action News Mornings outside Roxborough High School on the latest developments in the deadly ambush that claimed the life of a 14-year-old football player. Updates:
A fifth player suffered a graze wound and was treated at the scene.Sources tell 6abc that the 14-year-old who was killed was a student at nearby Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences. While the school doesn't have a football team, students are allowed to co-op and play with Roxborough High.
Investigators and district officials were still trying to sort out exactly where all of the victims went to school even though they played football for Roxborough.but is expected to survive. He said he learned about the shooting from his stepmom. "I was at work and got a call from my stepmom saying my little brother got shot. I rushed down here as fast as I can," he recalled. "My little brother is 14, and just hearing him getting shot is the worst feeling in the world."Bud Rigner's ninth-grade son was in the middle of the gunfire as the shots rang out Tuesday.
"He's up there in his room crying in a hysterical panic because he was right in the middle of all of this," said Rigner."I ran down the hill a little bit, but then I didn't see nothing so I was just chilling," said Gallagher.Investigators have not released a description of the shooters nor a possible motive.Anyone with information is asked to call police at 215-686-TIPS.
"Certainly unacceptable gun violence like this does not help anything. So we're always asking ourselves how are the children and frankly, many of our children are not well," said Superintendent Tony Watlington.
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