Accused Roxborough High School Shooters Get Formal Arraignments

ROXBOROUGH, PHILADELPHIA — Three teenagers and an adult accused of being gunmen in the deadly Roxborough High School shooting appeared in court Tuesday.

Saleem Miller, 16, Troy Fletcher, 15, Yaaseen Bivins, 21, and Zyheid Jones, 17, had formal arraignments Tuesday in a Philadelphia court.

The four – along with Dayron Burney-Thorn, 16, who is considered a fugitive from justice – are accused of opening fire on a group of boys on the afternoon of Sept. 27, 2022 outside Roxborough High School.

Miller, Fletcher, Bivins, and Jones are charged with murder, firearms violations, attempted murder, aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

Nicolas Elizalde, 14, of Havertown, died in the shooting and several other boys were hurt.

Charged as adults, Miller, Fletcher, and Jones will have decertification hearings March 2 to determine if they will continue to be charged as adults in the case.

At decertification hearings, judges decide if it is in the public interest to send cases to juvenile court.

Bivins is now scheduled for a pre-trial conference on March 2.

Bivins in August was found guilty on charges related to a July 2020 crash that injured a woman and killed her unborn child and was out on bail when the deadly shooting occurred, court records show.

And Fletcher, Jones, 17, and Burney-Thorne, are all implicated in the shooting death of 19-year-old Tahmir Jones on Sept. 26, 2022.