Gun violence has shaped the school year for thousands of Philadelphia students, but few have been impacted as profoundly as those at Roxborough and Walter B. Saul High Schools, where the shooting deaths of young students bookended the academic year.
The trauma began in September, just weeks after teens returned to class, when gunfire erupted outside Roxborough after a football scrimmage. Five teenagers — including four Roxborough players — were shot, and 14-year-old Nicolas Elizalde, a freshman at Saul who played football for Roxborough, was killed.
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