Daily News | Shooting hits home for mom of victim: ‘We’re getting out of here. This city is getting crazy.’
What we know about the Roxborough High School shooting
Just back from her son’s bedside on Wednesday, Hunter, 34, a SEPTA bus driver, shook her head at the shock of what had befallen her son, a ninth grader at Roxborough High who loves “sports, video games, and music” and was a cornerback on the junior varsity squad. She asked that her son’s name be withheld for safety reasons.
“I’m just so numb to it. It’s happening every day. I feel for all victims, but when it’s your own, it hits harder.”By her son’s account to his mother, he was departing the 90-minute scrimmage among the squads from Roxborough, Northeast High, and Boys Latin Charter School when the shooters opened fire.
”He said he turned around and they jumped out of the car with gloves and they started shooting,” Hunter said. “He couldn’t even tell me why.”Her son recalled one bullet striking the 14-year-old who was fatally hit, and others striking him and a friend at his side, 17, who was shot in the right arm and three times in his left leg. Another 14-year-old boy was shot once in his left thigh and a third 14-year-old was grazed by a bullet.”Everybody wants to be grown so bad.
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