Daily News | The mother of Roxborough shooting victim Nicolas Elizalde, 14, has a message: ‘He isn’t a number’
Nicolas Elizalde had begged his mother to let him play football for years, but she always said no, too worried about the injuries that can come with the sport.
A police officer scooped them both, and Meredith held her son as long as she could in the backseat of the cruiser.On his behalf, she recited the shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith, as he took his final breath.Police said five gunmen unleashed more than 60 shots on a small group of Roxborough football players as they walked toward their locker room.
“God took him to protect him from what this world was going to do to him,” said Elizalde, a teacher at School of the Future in West Philly. “But I will speak for him. I will work the rest of my life so that he isn’t forgotten. He isn’t a number.” “He wouldn’t even kill bugs,” said his grandmother, Marge LaRue. “We used to trap them, and release them outside.”
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