4th suspect arrested in deadly shooting at Roxborough High School

A fourth suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting at Roxborough High School that left a 14-year-old dead and four other teens injured, authorities said Tuesday.

Saleem Miller, 16, is charged with murder, four counts of aggravated assault, and related offenses, police said.

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Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore, who announced the arrest on Twitter, said the youth was being processed by the Homicide Division.

A fifth suspect, Dayron Burney-Thorne, was still a fugitive, Vanore said.

Miller was apprehended by police officers around 2 p.m. on the 1800 block of North 24th Street, Sgt. Eric Gripp, a Police Department spokesperson, said Tuesday evening.

Miller became a suspect after investigators recovered evidence in a stolen green Ford Explorer used as the getaway vehicle, Gripp said. Police then began looking for Miller, who has a bench warrant from an unrelated case.

The Sept. 27 shooting outside the high school killed Nicolas Elizalde, a student at Saul High School who was participating in a football scrimmage. The teens had just left the playing field and were heading to a locker-room entrance when they were ambushed.

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The other suspects who have been arrested are Yaseen Bivins, 21; Zyhied Jones, 17; and Troy Fletcher, 15.

Bivins, a convicted felon, bought ammunition from a South Philadelphia gun shop a few days before the shooting. He is prohibited from purchasing ammunition, but such sales do not require background checks in Pennsylvania.

Last week, federal prosecutors revealed they had arrested a Philadelphia sheriff’s deputy who had obtained two guns from the shooting and then illegally resold them to an informant.