Slain Teen Nicolas Elizalde Remembered With New Roxborough Mural

ROXBOROUGH, PHILADELPHIA — Community members gathered to mourn the teen boy who was killed outside Roxborough High School in September 2022.

Nicolas Elizalde, 14, of Havertown, died after being shot outside the school in a shooting that hurt four other boys.

Elizalde and other boys were leaving a football scrimmage when authorities said five people opened fire on them.

Four of the five are in custody on murder and related crimes, and one suspect remains at large.

But Monday was a celebration of Elizalde's life.

A mural was unveiled Monday at Roxborough High School commemorating the boy whose life was cut short.

Designed by Calo Rosa, students from W.B. Saul and Roxborough high schools helped paint the mural, which features aspects of Elizalde's life such as his love for football and his Mexican heritage, Fox 29 reports.

"I held him here as he died," his mother Meredith told Action News. "And now, instead of that memory, we have this beautiful permanent piece of work, and wherever I go in the world, I'll know this is here."

Elizalde attended W.B. Saul High School and before that attended Lynnewood Elementary School in Havertown.

Cub Scouts of Pack 332 and Scouts of Troop 300 planted a tree in Elizalde's honor at the school back in November 2022.