A man has pleaded guilty to two separate shootings that killed two teenagers in Philadelphia, according to NBC10’s partners at KYW Newsradio.
Zaakir McClendon, 21, was connected to the 2022 shooting outside of Roxborough High School that killed 14-year-old Nicolas Elizalde as well as a 2023 shooting that killed 16-year-old Nafis Betrand-Hill, police said.
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Deadly shooting outside Roxborough High School
On September 27, 2022, around 4:41 p.m., police said officers responded to reports of a shooting near the Roxborough High School football field. When they got to the scene, they found five shooting victims…