Gunmen kill teen football player, injure three others in ambush outside Pennsylvania HS
Olivia Bennett
Updated on January 29, 2026
Two shooters killed a young football player and harmed three others in a trap style assault beyond a Pennsylvania secondary school on Tuesday evening, police said.
The brutality ejected external the Roxborough Secondary School in Philadelphia soon after 4:40 p.m. as the young men were leaving a football scrimmage against two different schools, as per police.
The shooters started shooting from a light green Portage Pilgrim, killing a 14-year-old kid and striking two other young men.
The killed teen was shot once in the left half of his chest. He was articulated dead under 30 minutes after the assault.
A 17-year-old player was shot once in his right arm and multiple times in his left leg, while his 14-year-old partner was shot once in the left thigh, police said.
A fourth casualty supported a touch wound, ABC7 revealed. Specialists said the enduring teenagers were hospitalized in stable condition.
Police said the casualties generally played for Roxborough Secondary School, yet sources told WPVI-television that the killed 14-year-old is an understudy at neighboring Saul Secondary School, which doesn’t have a football crew.
Understudies from Saul are permitted to play in the Roxborough group, the sources said.
Police are as yet researching and no captures have been made.