{"id":213984,"date":"2026-06-08T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213984\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:47:07","slug":"penn-state-student-killed-in-south-philadelphia-shooting-after-apparent-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213984\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State student killed in South Philadelphia shooting after apparent robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 22-year-old Penn State student was shot and killed after an apparent robbery as he walked home in South Philadelphia. The shooting happened just before 2 a.m. Homicide investigators are reviewing surveillance video that captured Billy Schmidt&#8217;s final moments before the shooting. Video from a neighbor&#8217;s porch camera shows two young men speaking with Schmidt, who is off camera. Seconds later, Schmidt appears to follow them into the street. The video also captured Schmidt saying &#8220;give me back my phone.&#8221; Moments later, a gunshot can be heard. EMTs rushed Schmidt to the hospital but he didn&#8217;t survive. &#8220;Over a phone, it&#8217;s abhorrent. It&#8217;s just unbelievable that someone would kill someone over a phone,&#8221; said neighbor Ezra Roulinavage. According to his family, Schmidt was preparing to enter his senior year at Penn State World Campus, where he was studying communications. Penn State released a statement on Schmidt&#8217;s passing, saying school leadership is heartbroken to learn about the incident and they share the deepest condolences with his family and friends.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPHILADELPHIA \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old Penn State student was shot and killed after an apparent robbery as he walked home in South Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened just before 2 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Homicide investigators are reviewing surveillance video that captured Billy Schmidt&#8217;s final moments before the shooting. <\/p>\n<p>Video from a neighbor&#8217;s porch camera shows two young men speaking with Schmidt, who is off camera. Seconds later, Schmidt appears to follow them into the street. <\/p>\n<p>The video also captured Schmidt saying &#8220;give me back my phone.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Moments later, a gunshot can be heard. <\/p>\n<p>EMTs rushed Schmidt to the hospital but he didn&#8217;t survive. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over a phone, it&#8217;s abhorrent. It&#8217;s just unbelievable that someone would kill someone over a phone,&#8221; said neighbor Ezra Roulinavage. <\/p>\n<p>According to his family, Schmidt was preparing to enter his senior year at Penn State World Campus, where he was studying communications. <\/p>\n<p>Penn State released a statement on Schmidt&#8217;s passing, saying school leadership is heartbroken to learn about the incident and they share the deepest condolences with his family and friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old Penn State student was shot and killed after an apparent robbery as he walked home in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8447,3743,93429,69,71,70,2781],"class_list":["post-213984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-armed-robbery","tag-penn-state","tag-penn-state-student-killed","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}