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Police arrest second suspect in Roxborough High School shooting

Zyhied Jones, 17, was arrested Thursday. It was not clear what role he had in the shooting.

Some of the sidewalk chalk slogans outside of Roxborough High School on Sept. 29 done by various Roxborough mothers. Nicolas Elizalde was fatally shot and four other teens were wounded.
Some of the sidewalk chalk slogans outside of Roxborough High School on Sept. 29 done by various Roxborough mothers. Nicolas Elizalde was fatally shot and four other teens were wounded.Read moreCharles Fox / Staff Photographer
    by Rodrigo Torrejón
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Police arrested a second suspect Thursday in the fatal shooting outside Roxborough High School that killed a 14-year-old and injured four teens, less than a day after announcing the first arrest of a suspect.

At around 6 a.m. Thursday, police arrested Zyhied Jones, 17, in connection with the shooting that killed 14-year-old Nicolas Elizalde and wounded four teens.

Philadelphia police along with members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives served a warrant for Jones at a house on the 2700 block of West Albert Street in Strawberry Mansion.

Jones was charged with multiple crimes, including murder, four counts of aggravated assault, and conspiracy. It was not clear what role Jones had in the shooting. He was in custody as of Thursday morning.

The arrest comes the day after District Attorney Larry Krasner announced that Philadelphia police had arrested Yaaseen Bivins, 21, and the office had charged him with murder for his part in the shooting.

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Bivins was the second suspect to be identified, after Dayron Burney-Thorne. Burney-Thorne, 16, remains at large.

During a Wednesday afternoon briefing, Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said that police were led to Bivins by a receipt found in the stolen Ford Explorer allegedly used as the getaway vehicle. The receipt was for ammunition that Bivins had purchased in a South Philadelphia gun shop, he said.

As a convicted felon, Bivins was ineligible to purchase ammunition. Vanore declined to say how Bivins, who was on house arrest at the time of the shooting, was allowed to purchase the ammunition and did not name the gun shop that sold it to him.

Burney-Thorne is expected be charged as an adult upon apprehension.

Elizalde’s mother, Meredith Elizalde, has urged suspects to turn themselves in.

On Sept. 27, five shooters had been waiting in a parked SUV near the high school’s football field for several minutes. The five then jumped out of the gray car and fired more than 60 shots at a group of teens headed to the locker room after a scrimmage, police said.

Elizalde, of Havertown, Delaware County, was fatally hit in the chest. Four other teens, who ranged in age from 14 to 17, were also hit. Police later released surveillance footage that showed one of the suspects chasing a 17-year-old victim and firing his gun until he ran out of bullets.

The shooters then got back into the SUV and drove away.

Police have said they believe there may have been a sixth person serving as a getaway driver. It remains unclear why the shooters had targeted the teens.