A 17-year-old boy charged as an adult in the shooting of two students inside a school gym isn't responsible for the crime says his attorney. The charges against Raisheem Rochwell are all based on a surveillance video and witness accounts from the shooting Friday afternoon at Delaware Valley Charter High School, police said. One bullet from a gun Rochwell was holding hit two students who were both wounding in the arm, police said. But Rochwell's attorney, Amato Sanita, still has disputed that account to reporters Saturday night."I've not seen that, I'm not aware of that, and from the information I have, I do not believe that is accurate," Sanita said of the surveillance videos and eye-witness accounts. He also added that Rochwell "is not the person who will ultimately be responsible for this act."Rochwell is being charged with aggravated assault, carrying an unlicensed firearm, carrying a firearm in public in Philadelphia, possessing a firearm while a minor, possessing an instrument of crime, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person. Also the 18-year-old female student who was shot in the back of her left arm, and the same bullet also hit 17-year-old boy in the shoulder, police said. Both were treated at the Albert Einstein Medical Center. The female student was released Friday, and the boy was released Sunday.
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